Collecting My Thoughts

  https://www.coylefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Patricia-Foley-8/?   We came to know the Foleys in the 1990s when they hired Bob to be their a...

We bought our Lakeside cottage in 1988 and met our wonderful neighbors, the Steeles. We also knew their parents, their children, and their g...

I knew what was happening, but it was still a shock to see my personal items on an auction site so we could move. I need to remind myself th...

 Downsizing isn't fun.  Everyone (almost) says so and has advice. There's a lot of sadness in going through items packed away and fo...

  I'll never do that again! It seems we are always cleaning out books, but the shelves are always full. Books are like rabbits!! So th...

We've had a "busy" social spring--at least for us. On May 3 we went with our neighbors and friends Jerry and Joan, and Bill an...

Yesterday I wore my green-gray BSBO t-shirt to the gym. Black Swamp Bird Observatory. Today is the last day of "The Biggest Week in Ame...

     On the lakefront by the Hotel Lakeside

Since January I've been keeping a close watch on my good friend Nancy Long, who has been in and out of the hospital several times.  Fort...

This is an AI generated explanation of a Top Gun pilot:   "A Topgun pilot is a highly skilled fighter pilot who has completed the U.S....

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...

The Rev. Irwin E. Jennings transitioned from this life to the next on March 22, 2023. Having tenaciously challenged Parkinson’s for years, I...

I've never made it a priority, but I thought it would be nice to know more about birds. God must have had such fun designing them. My fe...

 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...

 Things are a bit messed up in our house as we pull things out of closets, bags and off the walls in preparation for our combined art show N...

Six years ago I wrote about the joy of new friends I'd made in the previous 15 years.  Since I didn't use surnames in the article, I...

President Barbara Browning sends Christmas greetings: As I think about last summer at Lakeside, I cherish all the friendships that I have ma...

 Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much for which to be be thankful, not the least of which is Lakeside! Thank God that 4 Methodist ministers ...

There are even white men (gasp) who have something to say about the motives behind the planned, organized divisiveness. James Lindsay and H...

A gentle reminder. Lakeside is a respite, or could be, from the aches and ills of the pandemic and 24/7 politics. Our Association rules are ...