I commented recently on the book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney — How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel. At that point I hadn’t read it, but now, through a generous gift, I have. Read. This. Book. Dr. Martin Couney was mysterious because he changed his name several [...]
Silk or ???
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, [...]
State of the Reader: January
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 [...]
Three doctors and a book
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 [...]
My mother’s wedding dress
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, [...]
