Daily Update: Friday, April 26th, 2024

Today is the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel and the Optional Memorial of Saint Cletus, Pope and Martyr (died c. 92). We note that today is National Arbor Day, and the second day of the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. 

Daily Update: Thursday, April 25th, 2024

Today is a Major Rogation Day in the Church; it is also the Feast of Saint Mark, Evangelist (died c. 68) and the Optional Memorial of Saint Pedro de San José Betancur, Founder (died 1667). And today is World Penguin Day, and the first day of the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. 

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

This is a biography of the Italian polymath Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642); his life is shown through documents and letters, but especially through the letters written to him by his eldest daughter, who was a nun in a cloistered convent. This was a very good book, and one that I very much was happy to read.

Daily Update: Wednesday, April 24th, 2024

Today is the Optional Memorial of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr (died 1622). And today is the forty-second anniversary of the Saturday in April 1982 when Richard and I met for the first time. 

Daily Update: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

The great Jewish feast of Pesach (or Passover) continues, which started last evening at sundown. Today is the Optional Memorial of Saint George, Martyr (died about 304) and the Optional Memorial of Saint Adalbert of Prague, Bishop and Martyr (died 997). Today is the Second Day of the two-day Lyrid Meteor Shower, and today is also World Book and Copyright Day.

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat by Lilian Jackson Braun (Ebook)

In the twenty-third book of this mystery series, the Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum are living in winter quarters in Pickax City, with former crime reporter Jim Qwilleran, of the very bushy mustache, who is taking care of them in the condo development they are living in and praying for snow, as it has been a very dry late fall. This was a good book in the series.