Cardinal suspends controversial Chicago priest :: EWTN News

Cardinal suspends controversial Chicago priest :: EWTN News

We need to pray for Fr. Pfleger, and for Cardinal George. Having to suspend a priest, for any reason, can be nothing but heartbreaking.

Desert Nun News: The Humanness of It All

Desert Nun News: The Humanness of It All: "Our THANKS to our dear friend, Fr. Fred Adamson, for celebrating Holy Week and Easter with us!!! There is something in the human heart th..."

This is another "don't miss" post.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Join me and other Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets. Thanks once more to RAnn for hosting!

Semper Gaudete!: Passover Customs and Memories

Semper Gaudete!: Baby Joseph Comes Home

Semper Gaudete!: What Kind of Lent Has It Been?

Semper Gaudete!: I Also Read Comic Books

Semper Gaudete!: I Also Write Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete!: My Good Friday Meals

Semper Gaudete!: Book Read in the Past Week

Book Read in the Past Week

Book, not books!
By "Read in the past week" I really mean "Finished in the past week",
but you probably figured that out for yourselves.
"The Cloister Walk"
by Kathleen Norris
(non-fiction, Catholic themes [Protestant author])
{Two uses of the "F" word (in quoted conversations,
and NOT in any monastic settings.}
I could have done without the "F" word, but this
is still a lovely book.

My Good Friday Meals

I almost forgot to blog this!

Breakfast:

One soft pretzel in the traditional shape.

Lunch:

One-half baked potato. 

(Not to be confused with one half-baked potato!)

Supper: 

(My full meal)

Two eggs, sunnyside up on buttered, seedless rye bread

(I love the phrase, sunnyside up!)
The other half of the potato

I Also Read Comic Books

This post originally appeared in one of my old blogs, and was first reprinted here in July, 2010.
It has been very slightly modified.
I remember racing (okay, so not exactly racing, but it's a good cliche) to the corner candy store on Tuesdays and Thursdays to see which comic books had come in. Then, there was the ecstatic agony of deciding which ones to buy. Of course, I did have some favorites that I always bought, and my Aunt Lily (really my great-aunt, my Baba's sister) could usually be counted on to treat me to a comic or two every week.
My favorites were "Sugar and Spike", "Little Lulu","Dennis the Menace", "Little Audrey", "Little Dot", "Richie Rich", "Archie", "Betty and Veronica", and, as I grew older, "Superman", "Lois Lane", "Jimmy Olsen" and "Supergirl". I didn't start reading "Batman" until the TV show whet my appetite.
I should also admit that I liked "Tippy Teen". Anyone else remember her short-lived comics? In some ways, her universe paralleled that of the "Archie" comics. Among Tippy's friends were a Moose-like boy called Animal, and a Dilton Doily type whose name escapes me at the moment.
No wonder the Tippy universe resembled, in some ways, the Archie universe. I've just found out, through a Google search, that Dan Decarlo, who worked on many of the "Archie" and "Betty and Veronica" comics, also worked on "Tippy Teen". LOL!
I am delighted, absolutely delighted, that so many comic stories from my childhood and earlier have been reprinted, either in digest form, or in hardcover. I'm even more delighted that some are available online.

I Also Write Fan Fiction

I may be one of the oldest fan fiction writers in the world, but I'm not the oldest of all time. That honor belongs to a grandmother who was writing fanfics in her 60s. (I wish I knew her name; I'd love to read her stories.)
Most of my works are based on the classic soap opera, "Another World", but I've done
other things as well. One of them is this Little Lulu Story.