The Baker’s Dozen: A Review
Most children’s book authors have a day job that pays their bills, while they work on their books in the evenings, or on the weekends when they’re not trying to catch up with laundry and cooking. There are exceptions, of course, but not many. I’m a technical writer....
Matushka Olga, Healer of the Abused and Broken
The icon of Matushka Olga is by the hand of Bess Chakravarty. Matushka Olga Michael died on November 8, 1979. That means that, when the bishops finally get around to glorifying her, her feastday will be November 8. Today. And already, there are people who honor her as...
The Story of Pelagia the Penitent
Everyone agreed that the courtesan Margarita was beautiful. She was also smart and ambitious. She knew how to make men want her, and she knew how to make them pay for their desire. And so she became wealthy. She covered her body – the parts she chose to cover – in...
Good King Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia
It’s the Feastday of St. Wenceslas! I know, we all think of him at Christmastime, when “Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen.” But, as the song says, it’s the Feast of Stephen that follows the Nativity of our Lord, not the...BOOKS BY CHARLOTTE RIGGLE
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