Collecting My Thoughts

I haven't seen the new movie "Jesus Revolution" yet but reading through the history of the movie and the era, I realize it coi...

In the 1960s, I was young and dumb. Can't believe the nonsense I fell for (or over) The Population Bomb was a 1968 book written by Stan...

The second set of every day china that I purchased was a Franciscan set in 1969. Franciscan Cantata is from their Whitestone Line. It was pr...

I worked at the local public library and the drug store when I was in high school.  In summers and during the school year in college I work...

My cousin Kirby Johnson (from Byron, IL) was a member of the Wellingtons, a boy band which became a back up group on Shindig a 60s TV show t...

Why did the Left oppose a citizenship question on the 2020 census? Why wouldn't the government want to know during enumeration how many ...

I found another "Little Library" on my walk this morning. Good thing because the librarians our taxes pay for are cowering behind ...

   Our children loved our vacations at my mother's farm located between Franklin Grove and Ashton, IL. My niece Cindy sent this trea...

I’ve been reading through the letters that Californians wrote to their governor (Ronald Reagan) in 1967—52 years ago.  I remember that year ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski is dead and Lionel Nation can say nothing good about him.  I actually met him when I worked at the Center for Russian la...

For many years I've had a clothing stash of dresses I've enjoyed wearing. It's time to send them along to wherever old clothes g...

In Alan Bloom’s book, "The Closing of the American Mind” (1987)--a book that began as an essay and became a best seller--he discusses h...

In today's climate of providing women extra assistance for education  a report written in 1965 provides an interesting look back.  When ...

We all stared as she walked by at the coffee shop. She was over 6' tall. She wore high heels. Blonde hair in a pony tail. But the dress ...

"As I wrote last week, Newt is a 1960s generation kid. Allow me to elaborate. That generation -- my generation -- was the most ballyhoo...

If you don't subscribe to GBTV, you missed Glenn Beck's monologue on the Days of Rage this past week-end (it fizzled miserably), bac...

everything comes back in style. But I'd probably have to take out the crinoline in the 1960 dress.

Since 1960 when I became voting age (21 then) I've heard and seen a lot of politicians. I've been trying to remember what president ...

On Mustangs and other wild things A friend of mine is thinking about buying a 60s-something Mustang, although he is 70-something. So for hi...

Right, right, right, um, right, exactly, OK, right That was the voice of the interviewer I heard off camera during a video interview of a ...