Garden Gnome Shortage: Last Week In Life-4/12/21 -4/18/21

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:08 am By Mark Wilson

Last Week In Life: April 12, 2021 – April 18, 2021 FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY Mon April 12, 2021 1961 – Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1. 1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago. Tuesday April 13, 2021 Saint Martin I 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson‘s 233rd birthday as part... Read more

Take a Look at the Last Week in Life

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:08 am By Mark Wilson

I want to invite you to read The Catholic Bard’s Week in Review Exclusive Every Week we take a look at The Last Week In Life Here’s what you can possibly expect. As we journey across the landscape of time, as well as the landscape of the internet, especially on FB or Twitter, we often come across more information then we can possibly digest. There are too many… Giddy GIF’s, Memorable Memes, Fun Fascinating Facts Poetic Photos Piffy Quality Quotes... Read more

Still Singing After All These Years

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:08 am By Mark Wilson

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One of my writing goals at the Catholic Bard, to borrow the Jesuit motto, is ‘Finding God in All Things‘. Finding God in all things is at the core of Ignatian Spirituality and is rooted in our growing awareness that God can found in everyone, in every place, and in everything. When we learn to pay more attention to God, we become more thankful and reverent, and through this, we become more devoted to God, more deeply in love with... Read more

Unusual and Wondrous Pregnancies: Last Week In Life 4/5/21 -4/11/21

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:08 am By Mark Wilson

Last Week In Life: April 5, 2021 – April 11, 2021 FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY Mon April 5, 2021 Memorial Saint Vincent Ferrer 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England. 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. 1956 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Tuesday April 6, 2021 2014 – Mickey Rooney, American soldier, actor, and dancer dies (b. 1920). 2015 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter... Read more

Book Em, Dano on Your Reading List: March 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:08 am By Mark Wilson

Another month has gone by in 2021, and here are some more books to add to your never ending and always expanding book list. Listed below are some books I have mentioned in the Catholic Bard Week in Review Exclusive or CB WIRE over the course of the month of March. I try to stick mostly to 2021 books, but realize that sometimes books come out in previous years I have missed or want to highlight for some reason. Regardless... Read more

WATCH IT: Movies with Moxie in March 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:08 am By Mark Wilson

OK, Movie Lovers, here is your cheat sheet for some of the interesting Movie and TV shows that came out last month. The big movie news of March 2021 is that the ACADEMY AWARDS WERE ANNOUNCED Here I talk about the Slimey Award Season Up For Best Pic This Year… click on link for rest of Noms… The Father Judas and the Black Messiah Mank Minari Nomadland Promising Young Woman Sound of Metal The Trial of the Chicago 7 On... Read more

New Tunes In The Jukebox Baby: 2021 March Music Madness

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Every week I feature new music in the Catholic Bard Week in Review Exclusive or CB Wire. The CB WIRE I decided needed a more catchy title that was provocative and stood out more. So now in the Last Week of Life, I feature New Tunes in the Jukebox Baby. And then I collect them all and put them in this post reviewing the Last Month In Music with some more titles. This week we got new tunes from Imagine... Read more

CB WIRE -April (the giraffe’s) Last Week In LIfe: March 29 – April 4, 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

A lot happen in the CB WIRE-April (the giraffe’s)Last Week In Life March 29 – April 4, 2021 FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND THIS WEEK IN HISTORY Mon March 29, 2021 Holy Monday National Vietnam War Veterans Day (United States of America) 1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established. 1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta. Tuesday March 30, 2021 Holy Tuesday 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in... Read more

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