In Review: August 2026

Writing

• Pie Pelicane
  • The Junior Classics Reading Guide
  • ANNOUNCEMENT | A New Series for Saint Michael’s Lent
  • Starting Saint Michael’s Lent
  • Note on my first encounter with Don Nicola Ricci’s book
• DestinLatinMass
  • Two Painters
  • September 2026 Newsletter for subscribers
    • August 2026 Newsletter for everyone else
• SAMC Choir Updates
  • Weekly updates

Reading

• My Goodreads
• Completed
  • Going His Way: Little Talks to Little Folks by Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
  • Sunday Morning Storyland by Rev. Wilfrid J. Diamond
  • Boy with a Mission by the Daughters of St. Paul
  • Barbara: A Patron Saint Book by M. K. Richardson
  • Days of Praise for Mary Our Mother by Catherine Beebe
  • Her Dream Came True: The Life of Blessed Imelda Lambertini by the Daughters of St. Paul
• Progressed
  • The Daily Douay-Rheims
  • Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Rev. Roger Baxter, S.J.
  • Hunolt’s Short Sermons: Vol. 1 The Bad Christian trans. Augustine Wirth, O.S.B.
  • The Chants of the Vatican Gradual by Dom Dominic Johner
  • Primer viernes de mes by Félix Sardá y Salvany
  • Conferences for Married Men and Young Men by Franz Xavier Weninger, D.D.
  • True Stories for First Communicants by A Sister of Notre Dame
• Additions to the home libraries
  • Babar’s Little Circus Star by Laurent De Brunhoff
  • Days with Frog & Toad by Arnold Lobel
  • Catholic Stories for Boys and Girls (Set of 4) by Catholic Nuns in America
  • The Monks (3-Book Set) by Sylvia Dorham
  • The Monks Stand Guard by Sylvia Dorham
  • Blessed Sebastian and the Oxen by Eva K. Betz
  • Saint Colum and the Crane by Eva K. Betz
  • A Story of Saint Lawrence by Brother Lawrence Emge, C.S.C.
  • Baby Beluga by Raffi
  • Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
  • Heroes of God: Saints for Boys by Daniel A. Lord, S.J.
  • St. Therese of the Child Jesus by Rev. Jude Winkler, OFM, Conv.
  • Boy with a Mission by the Daughters of St. Paul
  • Sunday Morning Storyland by Rev. Wilfrid J. Diamond
  • Short Sermons for All Sundays of the Year, Vol. I, The Bad Christian by Rev. Francis Hunolt, trans. Augustine Wirth, O.S.B.
  • Short Sermons for All Sundays of the Year, Vol. II, The Penitent Christian by Rev. Francis Hunolt, trans. Augustine Wirth, O.S.B.
  • The Maid of Orleans: A St. Joan of Arc Play by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
  • The Song at the Scaffold with Aids to Appreciation by Gertrud von Le Fort
  • Easy Spanish Step-By-Step by Barbara Bregstein

Skillsets

• Killed a grey ratsnake
• Two feature requests on Substack2Markdown I was involved in (here and here) were closed by tool creator