My mother was an incredible seamstress. I had no idea how good she was when I was little. She could make a dress in a day, but since no-one else around us seemed to even use a sewing machine, I had no way to process this achievement and compare it to others. I do now. [...]
This photo is from the Photo Booth and is incredibly blurred. All the same, I finished lining this vestment over the weekend and on Monday, and it took all my time. I am very excited. Next, stole.
The Society of Catholic Scientists has a list of Catholic scientists with short biographies attached. They state that their list is specifically about scientists who "made important contributions or breakthroughs" to some branch of science (or, I assume, mathematics). I've worked on lists like this for twenty-five years so I was fascinated to look through [...]
Today's Epistle Reading Acts 3:1-10 Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayer. And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb, was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them [...]
Pictures from the National Gallery of Art...
