What Reproductive Rights SHOULD Mean

To me, reproductive rights should mean making quality  pre-natal care available and affordable  for every pregnant woman. It should mean employers providing pre-natal vitamins to their female employees.  It also means that if a man's wife does not work outside of the home, and is carrying a baby, then that man's employer should supply pre-natal vitamins for him to bring home to his wife.

Two Paintings of The Last Supper Added to Collection

I added two paintings of The Last Supper to my Rosary Art Collection today.

One is by Jacopo Bassano, and the other is by his son, Leandro Bassano.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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

Semper Gaudete!: The Latest Painting in my Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete!: Ew, gross! NY Times, Washington Post reject ad showing Planned Parenthood sex ed images (explicit) | LifeSiteNews.com

Semper Gaudete!: FDA Approves Sale of Plan B Morning After Pill to Teenagers

Semper Gaudete!: Planned Parenthood Told Me I Could Birth 22-Week Baby and Let Him Die

Semper Gaudete!: Pope Francis welcomes Benedict back to Vatican :: EWTN News

Semper Gaudete!: Newly Discovered Info about my Father

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 #
Classics are marked with a *

"Learning to Lean" # 

by Richard Maffeo

[non-fiction, Catholic]

(Amazon Kindle cloud reader)
 {Sunday book}

 "The Little Flowers of St. Francis"

translated by Raphael Brown
[non-fiction, Catholic] 

{Sunday book}
"All About The Angels"

by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, O.P. (E.D.M.)

[non-fiction, Catholic]

 {Sunday book} 
"Life With Mother Superior"

 by Jane Trahey

[non-fiction, Catholic]

 {Sunday book}

"Elsie's Widowhood" 

{carried over from last week}
"Grandmother Elsie"
{carrying over into next week}

by Martha Finley

[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant )]
(free Amazon Kindle books)

"Heidi" *

by Johanna Spyri
[children's fiction]
{carried over from last week}
My Baba read this in the original when she was a girl.
She told me that Fraulein Rottenmeier was the first
character in a book she ever hated. And she didn't think 
much of Dete either!

"Emma and I" #
by Sheila Hocken
[autobiography]
{carrying over into next week; reading slowly}

(openlibrary.org loan)

"Sensible Kate"

by Doris Gates

[children's fiction]

The first book I ever read in which someone dies.

"A Little Princess" *

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[children's fiction]

(It's been YEARS since I've

read this book)

"The Home Has A Heart"

by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[non-fiction; Christian (Protestant) themes, recipes, 
anecdotes]
(May chapter only)

Newly Discovered Info about my Father

I found an article about a camera club being formed in a high school in New London, Wisconsin in 1938.  The Robert Brown mentioned in this article HAS to be my father, because:

1: He lived in New London, Wisconsin.

2: He would have been in high school at that time.

3: He later became a professional photographer.

Who knows?  Maybe someday I'll find, online, some of the photos he took back then.  I have quite a few he took years later; most of them feature ME!  In fact, once when I had my picture taken for graduation, the photographer remarked that I seemed to be very experienced in having my picture taken, and I replied that I was.

"Are you a model?" he asked.

"No," I replied.  "My father is a photographer."

This Week's Fan Fiction

Right now, I'm concentrating on Revealed Relationships, and I hope to begin posting several chapters a week.  Here is the link to the latest chapter.

Pope Francis welcomes Benedict back to Vatican :: EWTN News

Pope Francis welcomes Benedict back to Vatican :: EWTN News

Of course I have to share this!