I just finished reading The House of Green Turf - a romantic thriller by Ellis Peters. She is better known as the writer of the Brother Cadfael mysteries. I have read lots of commentary on how to become a (better) writer and one of the most consistent pieces of advice is to read in the [...]
Locked out
Just to say that I've been locked out of this site for months because my email was blacklisted. And how do you find out about something like that? Since they aren't emailing you ??? ... but I finally got through to WordPress and the problem is fixed. Of course it doesn't help that I have [...]
Is the Pope making the Galileo Mistake, continued
Making mistakes/owning mistakes Is the Pope Making the Galileo Mistake "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." W. Shakespeare Galileo's insult to the Pope ended in a trial for disobedience (not heresy). Galileo was convicted and sentenced to house arrest. (If you want a good summary of the trial look for Stillman Drake's [...]
Is the Pope Making the Galileo Mistake
In the previous post about mistakes ( Making mistakes/owning mistakes ) I wrote that one truth about Galileo is that he asked the Church in 1616 to declare as dogma that the earth moved and the sun stood still. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine was alive at this point and had a hand in the response. What the Church [...]
Making mistakes/owning mistakes
A few weeks ago my husband and I were out driving on a street with two lanes each way. At a major intersection we were in the left lane but planning to go straight and we were behind two other cars also going straight. In the right lane next to us was a car with [...]
