Collecting My Thoughts

It appears to me that the Laurie Felt brand was on QVC maybe a decade and then closed down sometime in 2023 saying she wanted more time with...

According to a USA Today article in the Columbus Dispatch the millions of illegal aliens who crossed the border and were not removed were ...

There's an opinion piece in the NYT about "Why so few people are having kids" by Anna Louie Sussman. She writes on gender, eco...

I tossed out my stockholders ballot before I read the proxy statement and notice of annual meeting for Netflix. First, but least important, ...

 I received word today that a classmate of mine from high school, Mary Jane Floto Zipse has passed away.  Mary Jane Zipse Obituary May 1, 20...

Our church, UALC, is having a “combined” service today—the 9 o'clock (traditional) and 11 (modern) are meeting at 10 a.m. and then havin...

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...

Obama ran on the Iraq war issue--specifically getting out. He said it was a distraction from more important issues. Yet all 8 years of his t...

Cottage cheese is high in sodium but is a good source of calcium.  I can't find a low sodium cottage cheese brand. If I inquire on the i...

 Next Saturday we'll be saying our final good-byes (for now) to Luan Zangmeister who died on April 16, 2026.  We were fellow members of ...

Take your child to work day. They are interviewing kids on Fox & Friends about this event. One little girl said she had no idea what her...

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...

A special postage stamp appeared in July 2025, but I hadn't shopped for stamps for a while and hadn't seen it. Today I bought a shee...

 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 1:9 (Qohe...

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....

 My friend Joan has recently lost her husband and has reposted this poem--always a favorite of mine since college. Time Does Not Bring Relie...

I remember the Korean War (1950-53) better than WWII, which ended when I was 5 and my dad and all my uncles (except one) came home. In 1950...

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

They're at it again--the gender mafia are attacking Christians who care for the sick and aged without discrimination. Will the governmen...

Ross Rant (investment letter) reports: "Many people decry the war as disrupting the market or the economy and isn’t this terrible. The ...