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, writer
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 [...]
