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Daily Rome Shot 1020: Magnus Effect
White to move and mate in 2. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Interested in learning? Try THIS. I had a note from a friend in Rome: I hope … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1018
I received some mail from the TMSM PO BOX. Included was a book by a longtime reader who is its author. It is full of clever things to exercise your mind… and patience. 101 Enigmatic Puzzles: Fractal Mazes, Quantum Chess, … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1017: revived
In the street projecting from The Parish™ in Rome, there is a tiny chapel, associated with the aforementioned Parish but somehow through time acquired and controlled by the office of the Italian government now housed in the old Monte di … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1016: nap time
Photo from The World’s Best Sacristan™ White to play. Mate in 4. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. In chessy news… the Superbet Rapid & Blitz starts in Poland … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1015: Quaeritur and “blind mind”
From a reader: Now that you are not in Rome and you are not going to cappuccino and a cornetto, what’s for breakfast? I could have a cappuccino. I have a great machine. However, usually I have very strong black … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1014 – My View For Awhile – The last leg
Welcome registrant: linux_geek As I prepared mentally to leave the land of the platonic form of Chinese food for climes in which Chinese is hardly even a flicker on the wall of the back of the cave, we determined to … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 5th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 6th of Easter) 2024
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for the 5th Sunday Sunday after … Read More
ROME 24/4– Day …. Nope… Daily Rome Shot 1010
Pippo the Florist. If you visit Rome, and you go the Campo de’ Fiori during the day, stop at Pippo’s get some flowers for your hotel room, and say “Hi!” from “don John”. Hey! s*****41@nc.rr.com My thank you note got … Read More
The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.
There is an interesting piece – interesting because it was in the first place written and published – from the AP about the shift among younger Catholics to “conservative” and even – gasp – traditional ways. HERE ‘A step back … Read More
ROME 24/4– Day 41 (0): Se vedemo & My View For Awhile
At 06:04 the sun rose over Rome. At 20:02 the sun will sink past the horizon. The Ave Maria Bell…. poor thing… 20:30. Thank you, Lord, for this 122nd day of this year of Salvation. It is the Feast of … Read More
excalibur on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Personal intentions.”
