Collecting My Thoughts

I usually ignore these memes, but I read it today, and it sort of sobered me. Especially thinking about those 99%. How many of these ring tr...

Our book club (on Zoom these days) will be discussing "The Candy Bombers" by Andrei Cherny this Monday. It's an absorbing book...

I've seen the Cheddar app scroll by on my screen, so today I decided to try it.  Sunday is not a regular news day, so I don't know h...

My mother kept a "commonplace book," in which she pasted poems, cartoons, articles from magazines, and things she'd hand copie...

Someone on Facebook today was writing about Vicks Vapor Rub as a cold remedy).  It reminded me that my Mom always used Numotizine, which lo...

I glanced out the window this morning and saw a car moving slowly through the condo.  A mom on newspaper duty. Just like I did, just like my...

My great niece Catie who lives in Florida asked on Facebook what was our favorite Christmas song.  I mentioned "I'll be home for Ch...

I've never seen a really good definition of structural or institutional poverty--probably because those are terms the left uses to criti...

My mother (1912-2000) had this attitude about all housekeeping skills, and particularly was careful to look nice when Dad came home from w...

When I remember Christmas 1944, I'm aware that at that time, I remembered Christmas back in Illinois and I knew it was different, but 19...

There are two strong memories from my childhood: the snow was very deep and we were at war most of the time. I was born at the end of a war...

The right margin of this interesting article from Woman’s Day about an early FHA backed mortgage is missing because my grandmother who clipp...

Summer time in the 1940s and 1950s This is from a post I wrote about a year ago. It's easy to romanticize the past, but it does seem th...

Friday Family Photo Yesterday the WSJ ran a parenting article about overscheduling children in their summer activities. In my mind's ...

Monday Memories Did I ever tell you about my brief, Christmas singing career? This memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think it was for Christmas...

Friday Family Photo Look at these little sweethearts, all dressed up in their caps and gowns to move up to the primary Sunday School class....

Friday Family Photo Even most of my family couldn't tell you how these two photos are related. I'm guessing the b & w is 1940...