Sunday Snippets-- A Catholic Carnival

Come one, come all, to Sunday Snippets  ! Thanks to RAnn for hosting!  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: Ethnically Exclusive Clubs

Semper Gaudete!: Hamantashen, and More Hamantashen

Semper Gaudete!: This Week's Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"In This House of Brede,"
by Rumer Godden
[fiction]
{Sunday Book}

"The Baby-Sitters Club # 1: Kristy's Great Idea" #

by Ann M. Martin

[children's fiction]

{carried over from last week}

(openlibrary.org loan)
(I like "Yours Turly, Shirley,"
and "Slam Book" better.)


"Luv @ First Site"
by Tess Kindig
[children's fiction, Protestant (denomination(s) unspecified)
 "todaysgirls.com" series, (created by Terry K. Brown)]


"Carola Storms the Chalet School"
"The Wrong Chalet School"
"Shocks for the Chalet School"

by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
[children's fiction, Chalet School series]

"Mother Mason" #

by Bess Streeter Aldrich

[fiction]

(In "Bess Streeter Aldrich Anthology"

Amazon Kindle Book)

"Me Me Me Me Me Me
Not a Novel"
by M. E. Kerr 
[autobiography]
{carrying over into next week}

"The Woman's Club" #
by Olive Thorne Miller
[non-fiction]
(free Google book)
{carrying over into next week}

This Week's Fan Fiction

One Careless Moment

An "Another World" story

New chapter added

This Is a Work of Fan Fiction

A humorous "As The World Turns" story

Hamantashen, and More Hamantashen

The Jewish holiday, Purim, begins this evening.  I took the precaution of ordering some hamantashen from amazon.com, because this year I have no Jewish neighbors to bring me any.  I'm saving them for tonight and tomorrow.

I remember one year when Mom and I received so many hamantashen that we had to put most of them in the freezer; so many that we were still eating them at Chanukkah!

Ethnically Exclusive Clubs

I remember the time one of my high school teachers asked what we thought about ethnically exclusive clubs.

Up went my hand.

"Yes, Rochelle?" 

"It depends," I said.  "If everyone in the club has the same ethnic background, for example, if all of them are of Italian descent, then that is a group of people getting together to celebrate a common heritage.  And that is something very good. But if it is, let's say, a "whites only" or "no Jews allowed" or "no Italians allowed", like some Country Clubs, then it's wrong, and, I think, immature. Clubs like that make me think of a bunch of little kids saying (I sing-songed the next part)

"Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!  We've got a club and you can't be in it."

Throwback Thursday

Originally posted on December 4th, 2010

Amusement Park
I grew up within walking distance of Coney Island, but even closer to my apartment building, 
just down the block and across the street, was a small, but to a child, wonderful, amusement park.
I can't count the times my grandpa and I would walk down there.
The place was understaffed, with the workers going from ride 
to ride. I can't remember a time when all of the rides were
running at once.  I remember waiting by, for example, the tilt-a-whirl 
(my all-time favorite ride)... and waiting and waiting and waiting
There was one particular ride which I'd never been on, and really
wanted to try . It's funny, considering how I longed to ride that
ride, that I have forgotten which one it was.
I was sooooo disappointed when the operator told me that I was too young.
"You have to be in school to go on this ride." 
I answered that I was in school, and the man scolded me for lying.
"But I am in school! I'm in NURSERY school!" 
Grandpa told him off for calling me a liar, and then we walked  over to another ride. 
As much as I loved going with my Grandpa, however, I longed for the time when
I would be old enough to go by myself. Like so many other little girls,
I wanted, oh HOW I wanted, to be thought of as a BIG girl.
But by the time I was old enough, the rides were gone.
"They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot."

Sunday Snippets-- A Catholic Carnival

Come one, come all, to Sunday Snippets ! Thanks to RAnn for hosting!  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete!: My First Ash Wednesday (re-post)

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: 2001 MFVA Seminarians

Semper Gaudete!: Archbishop Sheen is One Step Closer to Beatification
 
Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week