Envoy and servant sooth he seemed of Christ,For the first love made manifest in himWas the first counsel that was given by Christ. Dante, Paradiso, Canto 12 August 8 was the Feast Day of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers. I thought it would be entertaining to look up Dominican scientists and write [...]
Managing extra characters …
I like to pay attention to the way that other writers deal with certain common events in stories. One of them is the problem caused by more than one suitor. Fairy tales have one way of dealing with extra men… But it seems a little drastic in real life. L. M. Montgomery, author of the [...]
Mission creep, aka Pickles!
My refrigerator pickle recipe. *** Clean the pint jar(s) before you start! Wash them and then stick them in the microwave with water in them. When the water boils, take the jars out, empty the water, and turn them upside down on a clean towel. The two piece lids go in a saucepan on the [...]
Which Church father?
I have been chasing something I read about twenty-five years ago. I can’t remember it exactly but whoever it was wrote something like …people approached the temple, peered in to see its glory, then turned away rather than boldly entering and living there… . Me, paraphrasing ... The next few lines were commentary on this, [...]
Thinking about writing by thinking about what I’ve read…
Sometimes I write Friday's post on Thursday morning because I'm often a bit tired on Friday morning, after playing with my grandchildren in 95 degree heat, but I had too many ideas this time and couldn't settle on just one. Meanwhile, I've been reading four different book series on Amazon Kindle and finished several new [...]
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