Collecting My Thoughts

I'm not very crafty, but today we made greeting cards with buttons and scraps of yarn and cloth. Mine is the yellow with heels and the g...

Trump made it happen; the nay sayers have to eat their words. And even I watched yesterday--although I didn't have a favorite and I rea...

I enjoy writing (but not publishing) poetry. There are at least 5 of us here at The Estates who have expressed an interest in having poetry...

    We had a wonderful buffet lunch and a great movie in the evening, Solo Mio with Kevin James. Usually at The Estates we have old movies, ...

At the Estates last night, a large group enjoyed the movie, "1776 The Musical" (1972), adapted from an earlier stage play, which w...

 Melanie Novak blog on old films.  We've seen some of these at The Estates. I've starred them. The Affairs of Susan (1945) After the...

  Last week's trip by Estates residents to Columbus metro park Blacklick Woods was cancelled due to bad storms, but our hardy group had ...

Here at the Estates this week-end (if Thursday counts) we had four movies; National Treasure with Nicholas Cage, Ferris Bueler's Day off...

Inspired by a true story, this film shown at The Estates (a rom com?) tonight tells of four lifelong friends in their 80s (played by Lily To...

Here at the Estates on Friday evening Bob had a small (and brief--3 hours) one artist show. Most paintings were from our apartment, but thre...

When I got to the dining room at The Estates for breakfast today, the early risers were all a flutter. Chairs pulled out, people searching....

Tonight's movie at the Estates is Brigadoon, and according to Rotten Tomatoes: "Tommy Albright (Gene Kelly) and Jeff Douglas (Van J...

There's a huge pull-down world map in our multi-purpose room. While waiting for a class one day I asked (no one in particular) I wonder ...

6 syllables 3 lines, my neighbors Bunny, Bev, Bonnie, Bev, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara. Barbara and Betty, Bob, Bill, Bob, Bill, Bob,...

On February 10 Christians honor Saint Scholastica, sister of Saint Benedict. She was born in the 5th century and is known mostly for her fam...

Last night at The Estates we saw the movie "Now, Voyager" which stars Bette Davis and Paul Henreid (1942, B&W). She develops a...

Today when I checked the mailbox downstairs, I saw that the bulletin board had been decorated for Valentine's Day, "I love you...

 Our car is immobilized for a while. Churches and schools were closed by the latest storm that has swept across the nation, and particularly...

Never a dull moment at The Estates.  I couldn't get the jar of our homegrown (Upper Arlington, Ohio) honey open this morning to make my ...

 What's for dinner tonight? "Holiday foods are especially powerful because they’re tightly bound to episodic memory – the brain’s r...