Daily Update: May 20, 2013

Today is the first day of Ordinary Time between Easter and Advent, and we honor Saint Bernardine of Siena, Priest (died 1444).

March by Geraldine Brooks

As usual, I finished reading my book for my Third Tuesday Book Club a day ahead of our Book Club meeting (on May 21st, 2013). This was a great book, giving a (fictional) backstory for the father of literature’s most beloved fictional four sisters, and giving a fresh view of race relations in America during the 1840s through the early 1860s.

Daily Update: May 19, 2013

Alleluia! Today we celebrate the great Feast of Pentecost, which ends the Easter Season.

Daily Update: May 18, 2013

Today we honor Saint John I, Pope and Martyr (died 526). Today is also Armed Forces Day and the day on which the Preakness States is run. (Will this year give us a Triple Crown in horse racing?)

Daily Update: May 17, 2013

With no Saints to honor this Friday, we note that on this date in 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and that on this date in 1976 I graduated from Salmen High School in Slidell, Louisiana (Go Spartans!). Today is also the birthday of one of my co-workers at the casino, Tracey, who works on the day shift (1969).

Daily Update: May 16, 2013

We have no Saints to honor this Thursday, but at sunset today the Jewish pilgrimage feast of Shavuot ends.

Daily Update: May 15, 2013

Since sundown yesterday it has been the Jewish Pilgrimage feast of Shavuot, which continues through tomorrow. We also honor Saint Isidore the Farmer (died 1130) and Servant of God Edward Joseph Flanagan, Priest (died 1948). Today is also the day when one’s Louisiana Income Tax returns for 2012 are due, and is the birthday of my Internet friend Gail (1948).

Daily Update: May 14, 2013

Today we honor Saint Matthias, Apostle (died 80).  At sunset today the Jewish feast of Shavuot begins, and Richard’s brother Butch in Baton Rouge has his birthday today (1941), as does Logan, one of the Assembled (1984).

Daily Update: May 13, 2013

On this date we honor Blessed Julian of Norwich, Anchoress (died c. 1423). and Our Lady of Fatíma, Today is also the anniversary of the Renaissance of my marital relationship with Richard in 1997.

Power Play by Ben Bova

I read this novel for our Sci-Fi Fantasy Book Club meeting tomorrow night (on May 14th, 2013); I was not impressed with the book, as it has very little science fiction inside, and a great deal of Politics 101 instead. (While the cover of my book proclaims that Ben Bova is “Six Time Winner of the Hugo Award”, obviously this book is not one of the six.)

Daily Update: May 12, 2013

Alleluia! Today is the Feast of the Ascension. We also honor Saint Nereus and Saint Achilleus, Martyrs (died 98), and Saint Pancras, Martyr (died 98). And today is Mother’s Day.