Post 2 On A Book About Clubs

This, as the heading indicates, is my second post about "Ladies, Please Come To Order," by Peggy Cameron King. 
In the chapter called "Rub-a-dub-dub, What Name for the Club?" the author writes (or should I say, wrote, to be perfectly accurate?)
"Nowadays most people belong to something anonymous..... But your club is special and should have a more descriptive title. One of the first decisions will be regarding the suffix which might be Association, Auxiliary, Circle, Federation, Group, Guild, League, Unit, or anything else that implies a union of congenial personalities."
 I agree that these are all good suffixes, and there are others just as good, for example, Society.  (I belong to the Betsy-Tacy Society.)
This is the part I do NOT agree with:
"It seems too bad to fall back on the standard Club."
Sorry, but I don't see anything wrong with calling a club a CLUB, in fact, it often sounds better than the other suffixes, good as they may be.  Try replacing the word CLUB in  Book Club or Garden Club.  It doesn't work, at least in my opinion.  
 Then again, one  could give a Card Club a tongue-in-cheek name, such as Card Spade, Card Heart, or Card Diamond.

Post One Of Two on A Book About Clubs

I recently borrowed "Ladies, Please Come To Order," by Peggy Cameron King, (published in 1968) from openlibrary.org. It won't be on my book list, however, because I don't intend to finish it.  I found certain parts too annoying.
This paragraph in the chapter called "A Very Select Membership"  especially irritated me. (My responses, which I wish I could have made directly to the author, are in blue.
"Girls who are in poor health you can class as bad risks just as insurance companies do. They always use the excuse "I'm under the doctor's care" to get out of any little demands you may make of them, 
 They are not making excuses; they are stating a fact.   Many of them are glad to do what they can, and those who can't exert themselves too much physically may come up with some excellent ideas that the more able-bodied members can carry out. Besides, there are many clubs whose members just meet to talk about a chosen subject.
and no matter what the menu is, it doesn't agree with them. 
 Is it that difficult to provide something they can eat? 
 Perhaps you should admit a few as a humanitarian gesture
So the able-bodied members can feel good about themselves?
 although I can't think of any good reason for exposing the club to their ailments."
Poor health isn't always contagious. 

I also wish that I could ask the author if she even thought about how her unkind her statements sound,  and how they might make someone in poor health feel.  Perhaps, though, she didn't mean to be unkind; she may simply have been trying to be funny.   If so, she laid an egg as far as I'm concerned.

Pen Pals and Salami

One of my worst memories is the year when everyone in the sixth grade in my elementary school had a pen pal from another school, a school where most of the students were African-American.  The idea, I think, was to promote understanding and brotherhood.
Yes, everyone had a pen pal, except for one child.
Me.
I wasn't allowed to have a pen pal because of my handwriting.
It was hard having to listen to my classmates read the letters they received from their pen pals.
But that wasn't the worst. 
One day, we were told to bring our lunch to school the next day.  There would be a special assembly, and everyone would be eating in the auditorium... with their pen pals.
Mom said I had to go to school, but she sent a note asking that I be excused from the assembly.
It didn't do any good.
So there I was in that crowded auditorium that might as well have been empty as far as I was concerned.  There I was, sitting in the aisle,  listening to everyone else talking to his or her pen pal,
wondering what they thought when they saw me not talking to anyone.  Did they think it was because I was prejudiced?
That was the loneliest moment of my life.
Almost everyone had a salami sandwich.
I used to like salami, but that day the smell of it, added to the way I already felt, made me sick.
It was a long time before I could stand the sight or smell of salami, and I've never been able to
eat it since that day.

LOTH.... Weekdays and Sundays

The way I pray the Liturgy of the Hours on Sunday is different from the way I pray it on weekdays.

On weekdays,  I pray the Office of Readings at or around 6:30, followed immediately by Morning
Prayer.

On Sundays, I rise at 2:00 AM for the Office of Readings, and then go back to bed.
I pray Morning Prayer after The Angelus with Pope Francis.

During the week, I pray only one of the Daytime Hours, usually Midday, but sometimes Midafternoon... NEVER Midmorning.
On Sundays, I pray all three Hours, rotating which one is Current, and which two are Complementary.

As for Morning and Evening Prayer, during the week I say the Our Father in English.
On Sundays, I sing it in Latin.

This is just one of several ways in which I make my Sundays different.

Books Read in the week of August 30-September 5

Books read for the first time are marked with  a #

Books are grouped in their sections by author,
and not necessarily in the order read.

Sunday book(s) 

"The Happiness of Heaven"

by Fr. J. Boudreau, S.J.

"In This House of Brede"

by Rumer Godden

[fiction]

one of my favorite novels; I loved this even

before my conversion.

Weekday Books

"Casebook of Successful Ideas for Advertising and Selling"
by Samm Sinclair Baker
[non-fiction]
(This has been a favorite book of mine for years.  
I love the anecdotes!)
{carrying over into next week}


"The Home Has A Heart"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[non-fiction, Christian (Protestant) themes,
anecdotes, recipes]
(September chapter only)

"Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!"
by M. E. Kerr
[YA fiction]
{carrying over into next week}

"The Tale of  Johnny Town-Mouse" #
by Beatrix Potter

[picture book.
( in "Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales") ]

(Kindle book)

"Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner" #
by Amy Schwartz
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"To Teach, To Love"

by Jesse Stuart

(openlibrary.org loan)

{carried over from last week}

"On Our Own"
by Libby Lazewnik
"Ghosthunters"
by Malky Siegal
"And The Winner Is"
"Stars In Their Eyes"
by Aidel Stein

"The Inside Story"

By Libby Lazewnik

"Trapped!"

by Libby Lazewnik, Miriam Zakon, Emmy Zitter

"Ima Come Home" 
by Aidel Stein 
"Hey Waiter!"
by Emmy Zitter
"Through Thick and Thin"
by Debby Garfunkel 
[children's fiction, Jewish] 

The above nine books are part of the
Baker's Dozen series, created by Miriam Zakon. 

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"The Imitation of Christ"

by Thomas A Kempis

[Kindle book]

This Week's Fan Fiction

  
Unsuited to Each Other
New chapter added to this
AU Katie Rose and Stacy Belford story.

Reusing Coffee

Soon after I make my Morning Offering, I make my morning coffee, a good, strong cup.
Later the same morning, I make a second cup, using the same grounds, which have not
been removed from the coffee maker.  This cup is a bit weaker, but still good.
So do I get rid of the grounds now, or, rather, when they've cooled?
No.  I make a third cup of coffee.   It's too weak for drinking purposes, but I find
it very good for pouring over Ritz crackers or Ramen noodles (omitting the flavoring
packet, of course!) or for flavoring Farina.
I guess you could call it recycling!