I’ve been wandering around lately, looking blank and struggling to have simple conversations with people. I don’t have Alzheimers, at least not yet, but I am deeply immersed in writing. In the past few weeks work on my shepherdess novel, Jessamyn, has taken off. I have a word counter, and it says that, on the [...]
Eye candy from Iowa churches
The ceiling in Stacyville, Visitation Church after serious restoration. Don't know why that's what I concentrated on?!? Trappist monastery at Peosta, just outside of Dubuque Pretty sure this is Meyer, Iowa. Cheating. This one is the Church of Saint Adrian in Minnesota. Also this one. Check out the artwork BELOW the altar. Cathedral of San [...]
England or Australia, aka Nevil Shute, author
I just finished reading a Nevil Shute book, The Far Country, that showed up on Amazon for 99¢. Nevil Shute wrote novels in the evening. By day he was an excellent aerospace engineer. His career started in England but he moved to Australia after World War II. I have read Trustee from the Toolroom and [...]
Why did I write that?
My father did a lot of writing in his life. Mostly non-fiction. Two things he said about writing in general have stuck with me. Number One is “Don’t get it right, get it written.” For someone who strove to write what he thought was true, and then defend it, this is a remarkable quote. But [...]
One man — 6,000 meteorites
During the 1970’s and ’80’s the field of meteoritics was totally revolutionized by the sudden collection of thousands and thousands of meteorites from Antarctica. I can’t remember when I first heard about meteorites being found in Antarctica in huge quantities. … That lack of knowledge made for some interesting research when I started trying to [...]
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