Collecting My Thoughts

On Sunday morning I wanted to check how the word "charity" was used in I Corinthians, and looked at my grandmother's Bible, a ...

"The humblest working-class American today enjoys a standard of living and an array of amenities and comforts — from air travel to cont...

My mother kept a "commonplace book," in which she pasted poems, cartoons, articles from magazines, and things she'd hand copie...

Yesterday after the 9 a.m. service at UALC we went to the Columbus Museum of Art with Joan and Jerry and Howard and Betty, and thousands of ...

I’m old enough to have actually attended a poetry reading by Robert Frost, one of the 20th century’s most famous and favorite poets, when...

Dinner at Houlihan's Oct. 22 The Tulamos have been with us eight days out of their 6 week tour of the United States to celebrate the...

From a letter. "I am on jury duty for two weeks and have been selected for a jury, but we’re not meeting until 1:30 this afternoon.  It...

From a letter. "I had my ablation (AV node reentry slow pathway) on January 18th [2002].  Then while I was wearing a Holter monitor ...

From a letter.  "Aunt Muriel called twice this month to wish us a Happy Anniversary and also on my birthday.  I said something about my...

From a letter. "I had book group here September 9. I finished the book, “John Adams,” that Monday morning!  I made my mother’s apple wa...

Saturday, August 26, Bob went sailing with Tom, our neighbor, Jim another neighbor and Tom's brother Steve.  He often goes out with Jack...

Is it too early to recall what a lovely day Sunday, July 2, was at Lakeside? After enjoying a brunch at the Patio, we all went our separat...

A letter from Dad.  He always left the correspondence up to Mom, but I did have a few notes from him after her death in January 2000, and fo...

The Methodists were coming to Lakeside for their Annual Conference in June 1995--thousands descend--first West Ohio and then East Ohio, or t...

I got back from the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Kansas City about 1 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon.   I w as there only 4 days,...

I'm looking at my kindergarten photo from Webster Elementary school in Alameda, California. I used Google to see if it still exists, but...

I arrived in Washington around noon on Thursday, May 14, and was picked  up at the airport, then we rode the metro to a shopping area and ha...

Winds of war.  I think I know how this current situation in Syria will play out.  Big stories about WMD. Photographs of the horror.  A Repub...

The pre-Christmas holiday in 1995 was wonderful at my sister-in-law Jean's home in Indianapolis.  Even Bob's brother Jimmy DeMott wa...

My friends and I compare notes on how we're doing in clearing out the clutter. Three are planning moves to retirement apartments; we...