Collecting My Thoughts

I'm not sure why I posted this 10 years ago on Facebook, except to tell of my parents' voices in my head. They are about 60 in the p...

We went to Orchestra Hall today to hear Luke Witte, from the OSU basketball fame. Then to the Patio for perch sandwiches. Here's a sum...

Ohio is now considering a parental rights bill similar to Florida's. One of the best reasons for schools NOT to indoctrinate small child...

I'm throwing out files from 40-50 years ago. I was a Democrat then. I wrote to anyone who would listen/respond from Robert Lazarus to t...

Putting the Floyd protests in context--May Day, 1970 at Yale by Al Kresta. https://avemariaradio.net/audio-archive/kresta-in-the-afternoon-j...

"We had an unplanned and unexpected pregnancy in the 70’s when abortion was rampant. And we gave serious thought to going that direct...

I don't remember the exact date, maybe 1970. My dishes were new then. I thought I had given them away about 40 years ago, but foun...

I had a 50’ cord on the kitchen phone so I could keep an eye on the children and walk into the living room to see what was going on.

When my husband began painting in the 1970s he had a limited palette, burnt umber, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue , yellow ochre, cadmium re...

This morning I gathered up the pieces of my 1978 Upper Arlington Lutheran Church photo directory and took them to Staples (thank you, Mitt R...

“What do you say!” she barked loudly to her small daughter who had just received her do-nut. “Thank you,” the little one meekly replied. I...

My husband's brother, James B. DeMott, died on September 14 at 63. This is a photo of them together before Jim's wedding in 1970 (n...

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...

Today I control more electronic gadgets in a day in my own house than what I would do in a year in 1977 when I returned to work in a high te...

This is a "kiss and tell" entry. I adored President Jimmy Carter, and wrote him a fan letter after he was turned out to pasture b...

We joined our church, UALC, on Palm Sunday 1976 and the next day my husband lost his job. The economy was a mess--he was already on a 4 day ...

Thursday Thirteen not written I had most of it drafted--13 ways the feminists of the 1970s changed our society forever, mostly for the worse...

Remembering the Seventies--Monday Memories I first heard the details about the modern women's movement in my living room. A neighbor/fr...

The Reckless bad boys of Columbus The project was intended to construct a model program to divert young boys from crime by developing their...

3710 Thirty seven years later I don't actually know the exact date of the current "woman's movement." I date it from 1970...