Saint Willibald came to my attention the other day when I was teaching Religion to some 8th graders. His feast day coincided with someone’s birthday. Saint Willibald is absolutely fascinating, for someone I never heard of before. And, though he was not himself a writer, he gave (at least one and probably many) talk(s) about [...]
Band weaving from Jokkmokk
Sometimes my brain decides to short out on me what with too much input and not enough time to digest it. That’s a little opaque. Over the last two years I did the Bible-in-a Year and then the Catechism-in-a-Year. Either one of those was a lot to take in. I also finished writing two completely [...]
Tuesday blog…
I am substitute teaching for the third day today, Tuesday. The parochial vicar is away and I am teaching liturgy and the liturgical year to 8th graders. It’s hard to keep other items straight in my head. I sent the kids home Friday with orders to find out who their birthday patron saint was since [...]
Saint Margaret of Scotland, a confusing story
Saint Margaret of Scotland fascinates me. I never heard of her until I was reading a lot of mid-20th century British writers. If they mention Scotland, and a lot of them do, she is apt to come up. Her birth date is not clearly known, but is given as around 1045, or perhaps, 1047. Maybe [...]
New BOOK!
I finished my new book and it's published on Amazon. I'm very excited, and also very confused. I started off trying to write a cozy mystery and halfway through, the book refused to cooperate. At the end, characters from the beginning returned, as they should, but not quite as I expected them too. Anyway, here's [...]
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