More on that wedding dress. I washed it in Dawn soap and then let it soak in a diluted solution of a commercial product that uses hydrogen peroxide and is not named Oxyclean. This took out a lot of the brown discoloration in the fabric. I was thinking of it as linen at that moment, [...]
At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, I looked for books to read in this upcoming 2024. I put a little extra effort into finding murder mysteries by older Catholic authors for my personal list, thinking it might help my writing. (It hasn't so far...) For January, I’ve read …The [...]
I was strolling through Caroline Furlong’s blog archives (https://carolinefurlong.wordpress.com/) and came across a review she had written in May of 2023. It’s about a book written in 2018 by Dawn Raffel, an author I had never heard of (I haven’t heard of lots of people …) titled The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a [...]
I don’t know why I have it, or when I acquired it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of her wearing it. And I didn’t think, Wedding Dress, when I saw some linen stuffed into a small plastic bag. But it has a label. I took it out, spread it on a table, [...]
I read a comment on a blog yesterday. Someone suggested that a tomboy is someone who likes to read books about the virtues that boys like, such as honor, resolve, and steadfastness. My jaw started bouncing on the floor but it took me quite a while to sort out all the reasons why. I thought [...]
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