Collecting My Thoughts

I was setting the table for Christmas Eve dinner using the hand painted gingerbread boy plates and thought the silver looked really dark, so...

 This came up as a reminder for July 31, 2010 on Facebook today.

Tomorrow is "Giving Tuesday," and my in-box is swamped. We'll be donating to Lakeside Foundation to help restore the pavilion ...

I’ve been reading through some of my blog entries from summer 2010.  Great memories, but most of the specifics of the programs and events I ...

My last walk along the lakefront and then off to the coffee shop . . . Where I'm greeted most mornings by Linda. I watch a little Fo...

The Lakeside Antique show runs for one day in South Auditorium, Wesley Lodge, Wo-Ho-Mis and the surrounding lawns, and it seems I've bee...

Monday the 7th Civil War Week at Lakeside set a new record--the Green Room in the Fountain Inn was packed with 126 and the day's program...

Here we are at the end of the summer--every morning on my walk along the lake I see the sun moving south. Saturday night we enjoyed the son...

Last Saturday and Sunday we had guests from California, Columbus, and Indianapolis, with 14 around the dinner table Saturday evening (in the...

We are taking our anniversary celebration on the road, so to speak. With friends and relatives spread across the country, some unable to tra...

The Tuesday Wellness Seminar featured Rod Crane President/CEO of Ohio Medical Transportation (MedFlight of Ohio). He discussed medical tran...

There was supposed to be a sailing regatta today but there is zip, nada, zilch wind. [Update: They finally got off.] My husband's gone ...

We had our summer house sprayed for spiders yesterday--perhaps the second time this season. Now the windows will need to be washed again. ...

This week I'm taking two very different art classes. The first offered by Rusty Levenson is on art conservation. I've taken this cla...

What if the environmentalists, greenies, sustainable eaters and tree-huggers got serious about "made in the USA" while they are sa...

If you are visiting northwestern Ohio (or Lakeside) and would like to take a side trip, don't miss Schedel Arboretum and Gardens in Elmo...

At our summer home on Lake Erie in Lakeside, Ohio, we wash and dry the dishes together. At home we have a dishwasher. This is such a pleas...

On Sunday I got some wonderful deals at a yard sale one street over:  a first issue (v. 1, n.1) of National Geographic Traveler (1984), a ni...

One of the things that Jill Taylor suggests in her book "My stroke of insight" is that we pause and become more aware of and enjoy...

The Lakeside association blacktopped all the streets this spring, creating a wonderful "blackboard" for the kids with boxes of fat...