Collecting My Thoughts

Every Wednesday morning for the last 4 years I've been logging my husband into ZOOM for his men's Bible study, but I have to write d...

Jon Robert Martin, 86, a Marco Island, Florida resident since 1994, formerly of Roselle, Illinois, passed away Saturday, August 23, 2025, in...

Carol Samsel Hayes sent me a scan of what looks like some old photos of me in elementary school, and my high school freshman class photo. Ca...

My sister Carol died in 1996.  Recently her high school classmates were in Mt. Morris for a reunion--not sure why 64 is a special year, but ...

Looking at the excellent stats in this article, I see I might have been making close to minimum when I worked in high school and saved enoug...

I heard this week that Lucille Snodgrass,  the mother of my high school friend Nancy Snodgrass Falzone, had passed away.  She was living at ...

This is my high school classmate Ebba, and her family—in a puzzle which she has put together. She’s in the front row between grandchildren...

It was time.  It was supposed to be just our 50th reunion blog for the Mt. Morris High School class of 1957.  Now we’re past 60 years since...

On September 22 at 9 a.m. in the Campus Cafe, a few members of the Mt. Morris Class of 1957 met for breakfast. Marion, Ebba, Nancy K, Moe, L...

We had our fall Illinois Indiana trip this past week, celebrating my birthday there and seeing our cousins and siblings. On Thursday we we...

Today (and yesterday) in central Ohio we’re supposed to match the temperature records for 1954! I think it will be about 72, depending on ...

A few ladies of the class of 1957 gathered for lunch at the McKendrie Street Cafe (at Pinecrest)on April 4 and we enjoyed some cake left fro...

Looking through this photo of the 50th class reunion of the class of 1958 published in the Mt. Morris Times, October 16, 2008, I’m reminde...

In the fall of 1939, important things were happening, and these little kids started first grade in Mt. Morris, Illinois.  It was in their 19...

Back from our Easter trip to Illinois. We met many new people. Like the two policemen, young, handsome and polite, who gave us a $130 ticket...

I was a bit surprised to see this in a prom dress code (Utah?) in 2012: "Strapless dresses are prohibited unless a jacket or shawl...

Tina moved to Florida in 1956, but has returned to Mt. Morris for class reunions where we saw each other for our 55th. She met her husban...

I don't know what generates the ads on the right side of my screen on Facebook, but this morning noticed one for yearbooks. I have my fo...

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...