Collecting My Thoughts

Why is everything a crisis? Like the affordability crisis? The age of first home purchase has increased to 38. We were 22 when we bought our...

 We've uncovered the deck furniture and washed off the tabletop and chair webbing. Today we enjoyed an early birthday celebration with a...

I've been watching the real estate values. Right now mortgage rates are really high, although nothing like the 80s. Then I saw a chart t...

When we moved to Columbus in 1967, the area we live in now was farm woods and pasture—ravine, woods, and creek.  There was a 19th century fa...

This isn't exactly a Memorial Day tale, but. . . I was talking to a Vietnam vet today about church. He’d never heard of Lakeside, Ohio, ...

Conestoga is the "Friends" group of the Ohio History Center, and we do interesting tours within the state, and  also do a Spring f...