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...

Tonight, at the Forum (aka The Estates) we enjoyed the music of https://www.empirewild.com/ Empire Wild, 60 minutes of 2 cellos and a piani...

Yesterday about 12 hardy residents (it was cold and windy) went to Fairfield County, Ohio, to see Rock Mill, part of the county park system...

Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin for Echoes Magazine, July and August 2025, p. 34.  "Lincoln was worried as the Revolutionary genera...

  I haven't been wild about my "page a day" table calendar this year. I went from birds to horses. Hmm. Love horses, but bir...

We had a funny thing happen on Sunday after our Easter lunch. Our daughter had found a website for unclaimed funds in Ohio and found my name...

Coming soon on Netflix. The story of President James Garfield. But we had the story today in Lakeside from Todd Arrington, of the National P...

     On the lakefront by the Hotel Lakeside

The TV (Spectrum) was on in the background, but all I heard was not only am I supposed to pay their college loans, but I need to pay for the...

We've certainly had our spring rains. We have a small, sleepy creek north (our view), south and east of our condo grounds . Although I...

Although I slept through it on Thursday, March 14 (not serious on our side of Columbus), I heard that the final count was 14 tornadoes in th...

 On January 5, 2024, the OSU Libraries retirees got together for lunch at the Morgan House.  This restaurant is in Dublin, OH, north of here...

Never thought I'd see the day when a special law would be needed to keep kids safe from mutilation.  God save us!   There is no such th...

I've been watching the real estate values. Right now mortgage rates are really high, although nothing like the 80s. Then I saw a chart t...

 Sometimes I need to remind myself that we in the U.S. still have plentiful, and inexpensive food, despite what Joe Biden is trying to do to...

 Recently we've been discussing costs of retirement communities with various friends who have made the move, or are anticipating one.  T...

Planned Parenthood, supported primarily by Democrats/Progressives, is a cash only lucrative business for abortion and has a special program ...

I've been watching all the classy pro-abortion ads on TV (trying to enshrine abortion up to the day of birth in our Ohio Constitution)....

We Christians need to be humble. Not "more humble," but humble. Jesus told them that when his disciples asked about which could be...

In Sunday School today we were looking at Matthew 18:1-9 and other verses. Christians in Ohio are divided on what to do about Issue 1 on Tue...