Collecting My Thoughts

I go to Lifetime Fitness (I call it the gym) about 5x a week. Sometimes parents bring their children--I think they need to be 12 to be a gue...

After Sunday School on July 28 (Lytham Rd. congregation at Windermere school while our regular space is being remodeled) we drove to our chu...

Many years ago, I read a short piece in a woman's magazine about clearing out the home of an elderly woman after her death. Among her be...

I recently received a notice from Family Search about the 1950 U.S. census. So, I looked at my mother, p. 27--interesting to see the details...

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 tossed all my blogging notebooks several weeks ago as part of my Lenten house cleaning.  That's where I kept my notes while reading t...

 Reception December 11, 2022, 2-4 p.m. Bob and Norma, married for 62 years and UALC members since 1976, have both been painting since 1972 a...

 Our book club met yesterday (via Zoom) to discuss Jacqueline Winspear's memoir.  She is the author of the Maisie Dobbs series, that my ...

The sermon theme this past Sunday was “Drinking Tea,” which doesn’t make a lot of sense, except the idea was to relax from our busy distract...

I glanced out the window this morning and saw a car moving slowly through the condo.  A mom on newspaper duty. Just like I did, just like my...

Happy birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps, founded Nov. 10, 1775 in a tavern in Philadelphia. My dad, (1913-2002) was a Marine in WWII, and th...

When I was a child we lived in Forreston, IL which had an annual Sauerkraut Day and people would come miles for free kraut and hot dogs. Th...

"If we were to chuck every single educational “innovation” visited upon us by political hucksters in the last eighty years, and simply ...

Thursday evening we attended the opening of the Toulouse Lautrec show at the Columbus Museum of Art.  As well as drawings and posters by Tou...

I’m not one of those people who looks back in nostalgia about childhood—I always wanted to be an adult, as long as I can remember.  Obviousl...

We are stripping the walls, moving furniture, and emptying bathroom cabinets that will soon be removed.  The contractor is to start on Tuesd...

This song, the B side of Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,  is forever associated with Patty Page, who died New Year’s Day.  Page was the top-selli...

After Dad returned from the service after WWII he was assigned a new territory by Standard Oil, and he moved our family to Forreston, Illino...

Our family members were "visitors" here for five years--we participated in everything. Bible school, junior and senior choirs, Sun...

It's a small, small world This week I reconnected with my first piano teacher, a 17 year old (in 1949) from Forreston, IL. My college r...