Collecting My Thoughts

Ella Wheeler Wilcox  1850 – 1919 What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old...

Jobs are plentiful. The White House says seven million jobs have been created since Donald Trump’s election. Record numbers of Americans ar...

What a fabulous way to end the old and start the new.  UALC had its 12th New Year's Eve Jazz Worship service, and as I looked around, ...

"Then sing, young  hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merri...

            I was thinking maybe a good New Year’s resolution could be to clean one shelf a day, but I counted just my office and there we...

I did this.  Only put 4 slips of paper in it.  But I looked at it today.  I had forgotten all 4, so it’s still a nice plan, if you can kee...

We Bruces don't have any Scottish customs (but I do have a genealogy from Cousin Jim Bruce going back to Scotland), but I thought this o...

When we were in Ireland in 2007, we visited the Waterford factory and watched the incredibly skilled glass blowers, visited the museum (of d...

'Twas the day before Christmas and all through our house all of us were bustling even my spouse. Our children are adults now, hap...