Collecting My Thoughts

 In May we sold our summer home in Lakeside, Ohio, after owning it for 34 years. Part of the sale contract was we would stay until Labor Day...

Today I was going through papers from my desk at our Lakeside house (sold) that I brought back to Columbus. Some warranties, notes from Mrs....

Yesterday I bought some long stem sunflowers at Kroger, but when I looked in our cabinets, I didn't like the choices of vases. Instead I...

We brought all our artwork to Columbus on Saturday from our recently sold Lakeside home.  One I had always enjoyed, but didn't have the ...

 So I asked her.  How do you do this?  She told me, but I was on my walk at Lakeside, and had stopped by her house (she was sitting outside ...

On my morning walk today I was thinking about some of the common birds I see--the purple martin, the robin, and the hummingbird. In central ...

  F acebook wants to tell me how climate is changing in my area each time I post research that goes against its power agenda. It sends a mes...

 I heard some commotion outside and heard voices.  It turns out our good friends Tom and Natalie, their daughters and sons-in-law, and three...

 The last family picnic of the season--we're sitting at a picnic table with Bob and Pat Borean in the foreground and a few others enjoyi...

  Can you see the Naked Ladies?  That's the name for the pink lilies that pop up about the first week in August with no leaves to cover ...

 I went to the farmer's market this morning and bought beets with leaves, Swiss chard in 2 colors, tomatoes, peaches and some bakery tre...

According to one of our speakers this week at Lakeside, "Nearly half of the 300 million tons of plastics produced each year are only us...

 On Wednesday evening we head for Perry Park, weather permitting, to eat a hot dog, macaroni salad, baked beans, watermelon and chips.  This...

In a Q & A session this past week I heard a fellow Christian, a Lutheran, piously repeat one of the biggest lies of our era: that our co...

 Although we've sold our cottage at Lakeside, this year the flowers have been doing beautifully.  So Bob took a photo, and because of th...

Our pastor this week has been Andrew Forrest. Outstanding. He's beginning a new position in Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving Dallas, TX, but m...

All of Lakeside looks forward to this.  In 2020, we only had small groups playing at the bandstand in the park, and 2021 had a very limited ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-ChNN8yso We enjoyed Herman's Hermits--Peter Noone--and it was a great evening, Saturday June 16.  A...

The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some mast...

  Association of napping with incident cardiovascular events in a prospective cohort study - PubMed (nih.gov) This study was mentioned in Jo...