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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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