Monthly Archives: March 2022

Irish Brown Bread

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Irish Brown Bread

If you can’t get to Ireland to savour their wonderful Brown Bread, this is the best recipe I’ve found using American whole wheat flour:

• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 3 tablespoons toasted wheat bran
• 3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
• 2 tablespoons old-fashioned oats
• 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces 2 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Butter a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.

Combine first 8 ingredients in large bowl; mix well.

Add butter; rub in with fingertips until mixture resembles fine meal.

Stir in enough buttermilk to form soft dough.

Transfer dough to prepared loaf pan.

Bake until bread is dark brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.

Turn bread out of pan and cool right side up on rack.

Fiction Prompt For Friday October 4, 2019

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Friday October 4, 2019

FICTION PROMPT

“Sometimes the narrator tries to steer her thoughts in directions she prefers, or recoils from certain darker avenues of thought, but she can’t keep it up for long,” writes Lucy Ellmann in a Washington Post interview about her new novel, Ducks, Newburyport (Biblioasis, 2019), which is comprised of a single sentence that extends over a thousand pages. Write a short story that is entirely contained within one sentence. Allow for detours and interruptions—tidbits of song lyrics, physical sensations, flashbacks—to flow and come out. How do all the thoughts and distractions combine to form a bigger picture or statement?

Prayer Journal For Sunday March 20, 2022

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Sunday March 20, 2022

There are many types of nuns out there. Once can be a working nun without taking vows. One can be cloistered. One can be a secular. Once can be a consecrated virgin. Please help me to figure all of this out. Please send me people my way to help me in my quest. I can’t do this all by myself. I need people to talk to on this. I give it all to you to deal with. In your hands. Please listen to my prayer.

To God For Sunday March 20, 2022

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Sunday March 20, 2022

Dear God,

I emailed my parish priests for a spiritual director. What if I don’t hear back from them? What if they refuse to help me? What if they tell me to go away? How do I even figure out if being a nun is right for me? How do I figure out what order & what type of nun is right for me? What direction am I supposed to take? Where am I supposed to go? Who is to help me on my quest? What am I supposed to do? Can you answer?

Tiger, Tiger! By: Tara Kimberley Torme

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Friday October 5, 2001

Tiger, Tiger!
By: Tara Kimberley Torme

Thy tiger whose eyes burneth bright in the pale, wan moonlight
He doth wanders in the jungle-solitary and alone
His stealth, manner & beauty shineth best at night
His hunting talents-seen when chewing on a bone
Though at times as playful as a kitten
When pouncing on his unsuspectful prey
And his bright, shiny fur-as soft as a mitten!
His bright orange coat doth shine when everything else is grey
Thine eyes so bright and full of life
His eyes pricketh to every single little step
The silence so thick-it can be cut with a knife
He’s quick, keen and ruthless in depth
Oh tiger, thou art majestic as a king,
I really wish you’d take me under your wing!