Collecting My Thoughts

 But today I'm sorting/deleting e-mails from July 2009!  They appeared when I was changing e-mail programs.  Here's what I said: We...

Most of these were written during the summer of 2008 and 2009. There has been more remodeling, more upgrades, more rules, but essentially La...

While I was at the Midwest Birding Symposium eating almost every meal out, my husband was at the Cum Cristo center downtown where wonderful ...

When your wealth of bird knowledge is being able to tell a robin from a blue jay from a cardinal, there is lots to learn at a birding confer...

What an eventful week-end. We left Thursday for Lakeside and returned on Sunday. We had a great time volunteering and were thrilled to att...

Almost too much to think about it--especially, since I probably missed about half of the programming! It wears me out to think of it, so I...

We've been here at Lake Erie for 10 of the last 11 weeks, and I've walked the lakefront every morning at sunrise. I think I needed a...

It seems I’m destined to be the lone voice shouting into the wind that highly visible trash cans and recycling containers intended to improv...

"Lakeside is for lovers" is a phrase I’ve seen on cards, buttons, t-shirts and other memorabilia. And it’s true--and not just for ...

Purple Martins on June 30 Purple Martin house on Aug. 30 We have five Purple Martin houses at the end of our street. In June, they were a...

Last night's program (end of week 10) was a surprise for me--I really hadn't read the publicity. A huge storm blew in about 6:30, an...

At Hoover Auditorium last night we were treated to an excellent two person play based on the life and letters of John and Mary Brown by Greg...

The feral calico that hangs around here catching small rodents and squashing the lilies, eats at all the neighbors, but she knows a cat when...

In my last post I mentioned that I'd planned to go to the 10:30 service at Hoover this morning to check out the pastor of the week, but ...

Week 9 was truly spectacular--American composers and writers. Monday began a look at Aaron Copland (1900-1990) which continued through the s...

After a visit to the Marblehead lighthouse and lunch today, my husband will drive our young friends back to Kent and their host families. M...

My husband called yesterday to let me know we'd be having two guests for three days, two young men he met when he was teaching architect...

This morning on my walk along the lakefront at sunrise, I stopped at a memorial tree, about 15 ft tall, dedicated to a young man who had die...

By Joan Burris, owner Idlewyld B&B, Lakeside, Ohio When Norma Bruce asked if I would like to write a guest blog about my holistic journe...

It's hard to believe that we are almost at the end of summer, half way through August. I've seen the sunrise every day--just later a...