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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 20h

A former student dropped this by my office today, recalling I'm a fan of Pilgrim's Progress (and can't stop talking about it in children's and American lit classes).

"Here is a poor burdened sinner. I come from the City of Destruction, but am going to Mount Zion"

Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 1d

Received this absolutely delightful email from a student a few minutes ago and am sharing with her permission. Over 150 years and Louisa May Alcott never ceases to surprise and amaze. If you haven't read Behind a Mask yet, you should, friends. What a ringing endorsement!

Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 2d

Each October, we’re reminded: holiness begins with letting ourselves be hollowed for light. 🎃✨

This week’s Tiny Wonders reflects on The Pumpkin Patch Parable, Laudato Si’, and how God turns the ordinary into something luminous.

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Tiny Wonders: The Pumpkin Gospel

On letting God carve light from within.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 2d

Reviewed an excellent scholarly piece on nineteenth-century American Catholic women's lit just now and this field is truly expanding in all the best ways!

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 3d

It just occurred to me that everyone is talking about the songs Taylor might write for her future children (and huzzah to that) but after Showgirl I can't wait for the anthems she'll have to shut down the mommy wars. Now that's actually romantic.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 3d

Two Showgirls out on the town for the release party! #Lifeofashowgirl #Swiftie

Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to this while making pumpkin bread this evening.

"get curious about the spaces within that feel most stuck―and find where we need safety, attunement and care"

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 5d

10yo this morning (huffily): Our Chihuahua doesn't like glitter. So. Annoying.

And...Happy Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, friends!

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 5d

Women are over-mentored and under-supported

In careers. In business. In life.

Men are assumed capable.
Women are told to wait.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes you're focused on wanting certain people to notice and take care of you that you don't notice the way the others are. And those are the people God has been trying to talk to you through all along.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 7d

Finished our first novel in our Romanticism class and a beloved student made these stained-glass bookmarks for everyone to celebrate! I have the best students in the world. (Did I mention they finished a long Victorian novel and I am proud of them and the insights they gleaned?)

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Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social · 7d

Come work with me!

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Francis Marion University and the History Department invite applications for a tenure-track historian specializing in American History.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 8d

On October 1, I can’t help but say with Anne: “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” I wrote about her gift of naming beauty in the ordinary. Link in bio and below.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 8d

Forget cheat codes! My son taped a St. Carlo Acutis prayer card to his Switch and prays it before playing Mario. Best power-up ever. ✝️✨

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 8d

Wuthering Heights earrings a beloved friend gave me. Have been waiting for the right day to sport them to work.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 9d

Some of my Romanticism students reading Jane Eyre by our Grotto this lovely morning.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 9d

As a professor, I’ve been reflecting on the civic cost of fewer young men on our campuses. My latest for @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social on why men—especially conservative men—should give college a chance, and why colleges should reach out in return.

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Men, Give Colleges a Chance

Charlie Kirk’s death and the civic cost of unmoored young men.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 10d

Sunday afternoon walk.

"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."-Emerson

(Or woman with kids playing in the swingset nearby)

Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 11d

Essential fall viewing with the fam (ok while my spouse is on his annual guy's trip).

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 11d

Took a much needed break this afternoon to paint pumpkins and play with goats. Small town Texas life isn't half bad.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 11d

That is an infinitely good slogan. This week was just filled with all the little things adding up, one by one. At once. Trying to pause this weekend.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 12d

These past few days have felt like Alexander’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on repeat. This morning I’m pausing to breathe—and reminding myself I don’t have to catch every ball in the air, just the ones that matter.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 14d

Began my day walking "the moors" of UIW with my students pretending we might meet Jane or Rochester.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 16d

It’s the autumn equinox 🍂—day and night in balance, the season shifting (even if in San Antonio it’s still shorts + AC). This week’s Tiny Wonder: pumpkins, pretend-fall, and a family favorite spook-book.

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Tiny Wonders: The Little Old Lady and My Pretend Fall

Pumpkins, onomatopoeia, and finding sacrament in the seasons—even in South Texas.

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social · 18d

Thrilled this piece on Lindsay Lohan and midlife mom joy is out today. Perfect for a fun, breezy Saturday read.

The Dispatch @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social · 18d

"But Lohan, even at her lowest, always knew how to laugh at herself—and now she’s bringing that same comic spark to midlife." --LuElla D'Amico

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The New ‘Cool Mom’

Lindsay Lohan proves midlife can be a glow-up.

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