Mother Antonia: the folks at St. Kate’s who commissioned the piece are ok with the direction I’m taking it. Next draft due 3/28.
Tag: Mother Antonia
A one-act monologue about M. Antonia McHugh, the first president of the College of St. Catherine.
one down
Mother Antonia: Sent in the first, very rough draft.
playing by the rules (not)
Mother Antonia: Drafting. Reading the 1884 Constitutions of the Sisters of St. Joseph. How radical was S. Antonia being, sending Sisters off around the world to pursue advanced studies, without – evidently – so much as a by-your-leave? Very, it seems. Sisters weren’t supposed to leave the house without express permission from the Superior. S....
spew; surprise
Mother Antonia: writing what I refer to as a “spew” draft. Rereading and taking notes on Carroll et al. Infrastructure: Got a rejection letter from an organization to which I didn’t remember having submitted a script, then realized I must have sent it in through the New Play Exchange website, which automates the process to...
good hustle
Mother Antonia: read Mary Ellen Chase’s A Goodly Fellowship, a memoir of her (Chase’s) teaching career. Her chapter on St. Catherine’s includes a widely-quoted paragraph about Mother Antonia (“[She] went at the realization of St. Catherine’s College with everything she had in her, and she had literally everything….She prayed while she hustled, and she hustled...
tagged
Mother Antonia: Finished reading Liberating Sanctuary. Pages duly marked for taking notes. It’s hard to remember life before Post-Its.
scarcity
Mother Antonia: Took notes and categorized them. “Making do with scarce resources” is definitely a category. Infrastructure: literal infrastructure. The Captcha application (Blue Captcha) I was using to filter out spam was making it too difficult for actual people to post comments, so I switched to Akismet.
friends and relations
Mother Antonia: reading, organizing notes, Googling. When S. Antonia was a young student at the University of Chicago, she wrote affectionate, chatty letters to her friend Florence Guthrie of Blooming Prairie, MN, and encouraged Florence to join the Sisters of St. Joseph. Later, when Sister Antonia was president of CSC, a Sister Ste. Helene Guthrie...
workaday
Mother Antonia: read research materials. Erika: Did a bunch of problems.
craft
Everything Looks Like A Face: Emailing with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: Taking notes on Ryan & Wolkerstorfer. Here’s a quote I like from Carroll, Cavallaro & Doherty (Liberating Sanctuary). John Fleming quotes S. Jeanne Marie Bonnett, who somewhat reluctantly had to learn to do crafts when taking courses in Occupational Therapy. I love woodwork. St. Joseph...