Thanksgiving 2022
“I may be obliged to defend every love, every ending…” I’m thankful I’m sitting at my lovely Eames desk on this warmish sunny Thanksgiving Day. My bookshelves are still empty, Continue Reading →
Author Archives: Winston Smith
Catholicism in England
“This is your dowry, O Holy Virgin, wherefore, O Mary, may you rule over it.” One of my first daytrips in London was to Tyburn Convent. This was still at Continue Reading →
Scattered
The title of this post seems appropriate. I am trying to pick up my re-reading of The Tempest from that wonderful recusant (and bane of the woke) William Shakespeare. My Continue Reading →
Where are the other nine?
This Thursday, October 13, is the Feast Day of Edward the Confessor. Mass this morning was at the Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist in Stamford, Connecticut. (1) Our Lady Continue Reading →
Hotels in England
A quick list of my top five. Here’s a link to a previous post with the different cities visited during my two-years in the UK. (1) The Midland in Morecambe Continue Reading →
Weekend 553.0
(1) NYCC: PLAYMOBIL SHOWS OFF STAR TREK PROTOTYPE AND NARUTO FIGURES (POP INSIDER) (2) Advancing in Darkness: Some Reflections on our Ahistorical Present (The Imaginative Conservative)
Weekend 552.0 (I am following the river…)
…down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War.
Weekend 551.0
(1) Southampton FC take short-term risks for long-term gain with departures (Southern Daily Echo) (2) How Westminster Abbey suffered from no longer being Catholic (Catholic Herald)