Collecting My Thoughts

The Schumer Shutdown may have been paused but the Obamacare funding problem won't go away, and neither will hunger if political interest...

Tonight, at the Forum (aka The Estates) we enjoyed the music of https://www.empirewild.com/ Empire Wild, 60 minutes of 2 cellos and a piani...

Tuesday was election day. Sure, you've heard a lot about Zohran Mamdani and NYC. He wasn't on your ballot, although Communism was--s...

 My husband and his Romeo (retired old men eating out) friends have been meeting here for years. It's sad to see small businesses chased...

  I haven't been wild about my "page a day" table calendar this year. I went from birds to horses. Hmm. Love horses, but bir...

Since January I've been keeping a close watch on my good friend Nancy Long, who has been in and out of the hospital several times.  Fort...

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...

 Recently we've been discussing costs of retirement communities with various friends who have made the move, or are anticipating one.  T...

We've both been trying to remember the name of an electrician from Cleveland who was on Bob's Haiti team and was a friend on Faceboo...

I learn a lot at the gym. The exercycles are about 2 ft. apart. So, I could overhear the conversation of 2 retirees, maybe 10 years younger ...

My Lenten goals are getting a slow start. This week it was tackle the cupboards and bookshelves of the kitchen. I'm on the first shelf ...

There's so much I could tell you about the "Columbus CEO" Fall 2022 issue. 1) It's gone completely overboard for D.I.E., 2...

There was a time when Dr. Batterson was the second most important man in my life.  With our children just one year and 3 days apart, we saw ...

 Tomorrow night we'll be going to our Friday date night spot, The Rusty Bucket. Our Friday night dates go way back--sometime in the 60s....

 One of the news gathering services when I opened my computer this morning told of a 30 year old black man shot during a fight, taken to Gra...

We had a lovely Thanksgiving.  Beautiful church service and then dinner at the home of our daughter and son-in-law.  We spent some time tryi...

Admittedly, I haven't done a thorough deep dive in the archives on whether CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and WaPo have covered the rape and sodomizin...

  Dear UAPL: This is not a purchase suggestion; I'd like to donate it for circulation.  There are 9 copies in the system, none in UAPL a...

LeBron James put up a tweet suggesting that the Columbus officer who saved 2 black girls from being stabbed should be taken out--posted his ...

I don't understand why some media sources deliberately mislead the people who trust them for information. NBC destroyed its credibility ...