Gerelyn Hollingsworth

Welcome!

Bring flowers of the fairest, bring flowers of the rarest!

This year, 2012, is the 600th anniversary
of the birth of Joan of Arc.

This year is the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens.

One of my favorite comics ever!

Now it's on display, along with other comics about the Himalayas, at the Rubin Museum in New York.

What I've been reading.

Harbor Nocturne, by Joseph Wambaugh.

The Irish Americans: A History, by Jay P. Dolan.

Calico Joe, by John Grisham.

The O'Briens, by Peter Behrens.

The Descendants, by Kaui Hart Hemmings.

Past Imperfect, by Julian Fellowes.

Girl Scouts: A Celebration of 100 Trailblazing Years, by Girls Scouts of the USA and Betty Christiansen.

A few of my favorite movies.

Holiday Inn

Christmas in Connecticut

The History Boys

So Dear To My Heart

The King's Speech

Tango Bar

I love old-time radio.

Some great old shows, including Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

From the back cover of CONVENT.

Audrey Thorney entered the Rosaline convent in 1960,
a year recognized as a watershed by historians of women’s
religious life in America. The postwar vocation surge was
at its peak, and the exodus in which two of every three nuns
would leave their convents still lay ahead.

As Sister Emmanuel, she was under the direction of a
novice mistress considered harsh even by the standards of the
era.

After two-and-a-half years in Sister Wulfram’s novitiate,
Sister Emmanuel was sent to a college for nuns and then was
assigned to teach in her order’s schools.

As the Catholic Church in general was experiencing
the changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council,
and as women’s communities in particular were adjusting
to the ideas introduced by the Sister Formation movement
and by Cardinal Suenens, Sister Emmanuel was dealing with
troubled fellow religious and with priests beset by personal
problems and openly contemptuous of nuns.

Some other convent stories.

The Tulip and the Pope, by Deborah Larsen.
"Convent Life," by Mary Rose Shaughnessy.
The Tears I Couldn't Cry: Behind Convent Doors, by Patricia Grueninger Beasley.
Changing Habits, by V. V. Harrison.
One Nun's Story: Then and Now, by Mary Jane Masterson.
Memoirs Of An Ex-Nun: Sweet Surrender, by Josephine Latorilla.
Triptych: A Memoir, by Margaret Lynch.
Convent Life and Beyond, by Grace E Stoltz.
Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir, by Kathleen J. Waites.
Forever and Ever, Amen, by Karol Jackowski.
Thursday's Child: Memoirs of an Ex-Nun, by Sue Potter.
Habits of Sin, by Ashley Hill.
Ginny's Convent Life In the Sisters of Mercy, by Paul Poll.
Hope Endures: Leaving Mother Teresa, Losing Faith, and Searching for Meaning, by Colette Livermore.

Some colleges and universities I like.

Harvard University

Drury University

William Jewell College

Duke University

Centre College

The University of Kansas

The George Washington University

Washington University in St. Louis

UCLA

Georgetown University

University of Wisconsin