by applewooddollhospital | May 9, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Helen Walker Homan This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare – she kind of pops up at the beginning of the book for a minute and then again at the end. Saint Francis, whose father was a successful merchant, came...
by applewooddollhospital | Apr 11, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by GK Chesterton This was a near perfect biography. If I were Charles Dickens, I would have been waiting for Chesterton at the gates of heaven to hug the stuffing out of him for writing...
by applewooddollhospital | Apr 4, 2023 | Blog, Essays
I share a common interest with psychopaths: watching people sleep. Though, I can’t be sure our motives for watching people are the same. And I don’t sneak into other people’s...
by applewooddollhospital | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog, Essays
I had some sort of respiratory virus at the beginning of Lent that knocked me down for a week and then kept me lethargic and coughing for another week. I’m glad it happened during Lent...
by applewooddollhospital | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Quotes I Like
“… ignore them as children ignore them.”