Category Archives: Journal

Sharing more about me, less about (almost) everything else

Independence Day, 250 Years Later

Two and a half centuries back, quite a few English subjects who were living in colonies strung along North America’s east cast had become fed up. Thoroughly. Like pretty much anything else involving humans, it’s complicated. It wasn’t just paying … Continue reading

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Society of St. Pius X / SSPX: Schism Official

The Vatican/Holy See recognizing that the SSPX/FSSPX/Lefebvrists/Lefebvrians is not officially part of the Roman Catholic Church isn’t all that surprising. I’m sharing excerpts: one from an AP article, another from Vatican News. There’s more detail and links in the Vatican … Continue reading

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Passing Along Our Stories

This is going to be a short one. So far, I’ve had two ‘one of those weeks’ in a row. Our youngest daughter tells me there’s been a lot of tree and grass pollen in the air lately, so that … Continue reading

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AI Art and Me

Oddly enough, that picture was not made with or by AI. I didn’t do all the work that went into “Hangar 7”. Nikola Tesla, Michael Faraday, and a whole mess of other folks developed the alternating current1 that ran my … Continue reading

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A Ride in the Library

My mother and father met while earning degrees in library science. I don’t know when or why it was first called a “science”. I’ll grant that the academic discipline focusing on sorting documents into categories, and then making those documents … Continue reading

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