Collecting My Thoughts

Here at the Estates this week-end (if Thursday counts) we had four movies; National Treasure with Nicholas Cage, Ferris Bueler's Day off...

Inspired by a true story, this film shown at The Estates (a rom com?) tonight tells of four lifelong friends in their 80s (played by Lily To...

Here at the Estates on Friday evening Bob had a small (and brief--3 hours) one artist show. Most paintings were from our apartment, but thre...

When I got to the dining room at The Estates for breakfast today, the early risers were all a flutter. Chairs pulled out, people searching....

Tonight's movie at the Estates is Brigadoon, and according to Rotten Tomatoes: "Tommy Albright (Gene Kelly) and Jeff Douglas (Van J...

There's a huge pull-down world map in our multi-purpose room. While waiting for a class one day I asked (no one in particular) I wonder ...

6 syllables 3 lines, my neighbors Bunny, Bev, Bonnie, Bev, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara. Barbara and Betty, Bob, Bill, Bob, Bill, Bob,...

On February 10 Christians honor Saint Scholastica, sister of Saint Benedict. She was born in the 5th century and is known mostly for her fam...

Last night at The Estates we saw the movie "Now, Voyager" which stars Bette Davis and Paul Henreid (1942, B&W). She develops a...

Today when I checked the mailbox downstairs, I saw that the bulletin board had been decorated for Valentine's Day, "I love you...

 Our car is immobilized for a while. Churches and schools were closed by the latest storm that has swept across the nation, and particularly...

Never a dull moment at The Estates.  I couldn't get the jar of our homegrown (Upper Arlington, Ohio) honey open this morning to make my ...

 What's for dinner tonight? "Holiday foods are especially powerful because they’re tightly bound to episodic memory – the brain’s r...

Elvis [Lonnie Jay Freeman] came to The Estates to entertain us yesterday afternoon. I won a scarf for knowing the name of his first movie. ....

Our Christmas programs at the Estates are coming fast. We had two! today. I think I know all the words now for Frosty and White Christmas....

Yesterday The Estates had a residents' apartment tour of Christmas decor. I was sort of grinchy in August when we were moving, so all th...

 I've seen a lot of very negative ads about oatmeal flash by on internet ads, and I have a friend who is always pushing something health...

I haven't heard anyone at The Estates (formerly the Forum) say this--"I wish I were 18 again." But I've enjoyed listening ...

This is an important day. It's the penultimate day of the church calendar. (Ultimate means final or farthest and pen means almost.) So i...

The film at The Estates (formerly the Forum) on Sunday was Fried Green Tomatoes, a very popular 1992 retelling of Fannie Flagg's best se...