Books Read in the Past Week

Weekdays:
"All-Of-A-Kind Family Uptown"
"Ella of All-Of-A-Kind Family"
by Sydney Taylor
(children's fiction)

"The Island's True Child
A Memoir of Growing Up On Criehaven"
by Dorothy Simpson
with additional text by her niece, Dorothy Elisabeth Simpson.
(biography/autobiography)
After Dorothy Simpson's death, her unpublished manuscripts were given to her niece, who writes in the forward:
"I was so moved by this story of my grandfather and his family that I had to share it with others.
Because Aunt Dot was such a skillful writer, we had to do very little to get her manuscript into publishable shape."

"The Honest Dollar"
"A Lesson For Janie"
"A Matter Of Pride"
by Dorothy Simpson
(children's fiction)

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

60th Anniversary

God bless His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, on the 60th
anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. And how fitting that it should be on the
Solemnity of Sts Peter (the first Pope) and Paul!

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is Tweeting!

Click Here
Apparently, His Holiness has tweeted before,
but this is the first time he has tweeted using iPad.

Summer Camp and "All-Of-A-Kind Family"

Some of my best memories of summer camp, in 1967, are of unscheduled events. This, perhaps, is my best memory:
There was a row of three senior girls' bunks. A girl from one of the bunks had a little electric teapot. Every afternoon, at rest period, we would relax on the lawn in front of the bunks, sipping tea (those of us who had parental permission to drink coffee were, by implication, allowed to drink tea) and reading aloud by turns.
One book, which turned out to be everyone's favorite, was Sydney Taylor's "All-Of-A-Kind Family".
Oh, how I empathized with Sarah when her library book was lost! How I envied the girls for the game their Mama made up (hunting for buttons) to make dusting fun. (But I should admit that I never had to dust when I was a kid.)
I could almost taste the broken crackers and the candy which Charlotte and Gertie secretly
ate in bed one night.
Of course, I also loved the Jewish themes in the book, the Sabbath and the holidays.
I'm sure that I wasn't the only girl who went to her local library after coming home from
camp, and took out "More All-Of-A-Kind Family" and "All-Of-A-Kind Family Uptown".

New Items

I added some new items to my collection today, including the
very first commercial jingle on radio. I also put a link to my collection on this blog.

Special EWTN Programming

Don't miss the
SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI BENEDICTION AND PROCESSION FROM HANCEVILLE (LIVE)
on EWTN, 6:00PM Eastern Time.
I'm definitely going to watch!

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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Thanks once again to RAnn for hosting!


Semper Gaudete!: Special EWTN Programming

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 1: Saturday Evening

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 2: Prayer Schedule

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 3: Reading

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 4: Secular Amusements

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week