Gem of The Ocean

Love and miss you.  Did the plenary indulgence for you this week.  I pray you don't "need it!"  But are already looking down o...

Please keep my late husband, Quentin Gelder, in your prayers today.  Today is the 3rd anniversary of his death. I hope he has his reward i...

On Monday, Sept. 22nd, as a late birthday present to myself, I toured the State Apartments and back yard. (Okay, the English would say ...

This past July 4th, I was out and about.  I had decided to go see the Reagan memorial, as well as the Tyburn Convent.  Between those two poi...

Tara has a new called God sees the heart .  Tara lives in Utah, and blogs about God and dogs and food and lovely things and prayers....

Vit: The burqa crowd drives me nuts. I "go off" on them elsewhere! As for the veil thing -- It's a generational thing. I c...

If you're old enough, you remem- ber where you were and what you were doing. I was almost 13 and living in Emmaus, Pa. Just before the s...

Today I had come across Pope Benedict's remarks given in 2006 re: Simon and Jude.  In light of on-going discussions in the Catholic com...

Mac , this one is for you.  Hope the corn hasn't grown too high.   The kitties should have no trouble negotiating it either, as I ass...

Okay, Blessed Blake of Brighton has guilted me into blogging again with his recent muse regards Where Have All The Bloggers gone . Well, ...

Why a pope going to confession is bigtime news to the media, I have no idea, except to speculate that there are few practising members of an...

There is in England a well known tune called Jerusalem, most often sung in Anglican churches.  The melody isn't nearly as well known in ...

Jack (left) with best friend Lem Billings in France, 1937 It's not very often you remember EXACTLY what you were doing almost to the...

The other day I was going through things my late husband had.  This picture was taken shortly after his last chemotherapy treatment.  He...