Collecting My Thoughts

My uncle Gramps was the husband of my dad’s sister, Marion, who owned the Tot and Teen shop in Mt. Morris.  Nice guy, but I didn’t spend a l...

Monday Memories In honor of the Dream Girls movie, which I wrote about here , I'll throw in a memory from the mid-60s when we were bri...

731 Real estate values I love to read real estate ads. The hyperbole, the squish words--vintage, curb appeal, redefines elegance. Today...

67 The ghost of William B. McKinley In #65 I said I don’t believe in ghosts, however, Mr. McKinley seemed everywhere when I was at the Univ...