Collecting My Thoughts

Research shows Mom was right. Eat all the colors. This is a meta-analysis. Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality: Results From 2 Prospect...

Taken from a friend's post. . . and passed along by Diane Orr McDermott (grew up in Mt. Morris, and lives in New Orleans) “gotta love th...

  Use farther for physical distance, further for metaphorical.

"Having an outdoor privy signified a level of decency above those who simply relieved themselves in the woods or fields. Indoor light w...

Dan Kennedy in Dumb and Dumber by Choice begins by pointing out that reading is down 20% in the last 25 years and that 40 million Americans ...

Are you smarter than the people you elected? It shouldn't be difficult. The most recent annual report on Civic Literacy, released by the...

America's favorite Terrorist has new book Bill Ayers, Barack's mentor and Chicago backer has a new book. I'm sure I'll have ...

4853 New twist on an old myth When I was a little girl, children were told to clean up their plates because there were starving children in...

What to wear in Italy Cannes, the site of the film festival, isn't in Italy, but it's close enough. I saw an article on what to we...

3834 Reading about another war Many of the passages of David McCullough's 1776 have been very moving and informative. I didn't kn...