Collecting My Thoughts

There's an editorial in WSJ today from a woman who had been told by her doctors she had to give up high heels. There's a pay wall, b...

Today is our 60th wedding anniversary. We're having a much smaller celebration than we had in 2010 for our 50th--a few Lakeside friends ...

In the late 1950's my college roommate Dora and I both dated architectural students named Bob whom we married. They both had taken ar...

My great niece Catie who lives in Florida asked on Facebook what was our favorite Christmas song.  I mentioned "I'll be home for Ch...

1971 birthdays/Thanksgiving 1996 2009 2015 2017

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...

Bob and his sister Deb heading to Hoover for an evening of music.     Checking out the new pool and wellness center at Lakeside. D...

A new look for the porch. We bought our summer home in Lakeside, Ohio,  in 1988 (actual house with plaster walls, basement and fireplace bui...

My favorite t-shirt--Chocolate God's gift to women Friday morning is Farmer's Market in Lakeside, so I walked down to Walnut and...

It was 1977 and Bob's father was visiting in Indiana from California. Bob Poisal, Bob Bruce, Sr., and Bob Bruce, Jr. 40 years ago, B...

The wind was really brisk along the lake this morning. I had my 2 mile walk.  The irises are fabulous—I could tell even in the dim light o...

For many years I've had a clothing stash of dresses I've enjoyed wearing. It's time to send them along to wherever old clothes g...

Last night on our tour through our photo albums we went back to Italy, June 2008.  However, because I was hospitalized when we returned to C...