Collecting My Thoughts

Flipping through the channels today I came across the Dr. Zhivago movie, 1965. It's 3 hours, but 30 minutes of scenes of Russia's Ci...

 JAMA (which is the journal of the American Medical Association) has an interesting feature called "JAMA Revisited," reprinting ar...

Today at the gym I heard about "They shall not grow old" a film about WWI using British footage, and by the magic of technology, m...

I’ve seen a lot of people try to explain what money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars could have purchased in social services.  But tha...

Paul said 2000 years ago the cross was an offense, foolish, scandal or mystery to some (1 Cor 1:18-25), and besides . . . "it is safe t...

Today my husband played the 3 cd set of " The Dubliners; Ireland's No. 1 Folk Group " in exercise class. Irish songs are mino...

I wrote that I read the Constitution while I was on my blogging vacation. So I checked the public library for some recent material. There ...

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I've told the story of how my parents, who were very young children, heard ...

This summer at Lakeside I heard an excellent sports and religion lecture on the life of Eric Liddell (Chariots of Fire), who was born in Chi...

Repeating myself on George W. Bush I wrote this in December 2008 after looking through a Sept. 18, 1939 Life magazine about the WWII we had...

Too much too soon and too little too late That's FDR in the 1930s. He extended the Great Depression through government interference and ...

4183 For the veterans who protest the war I completely support your right to do so; this is the kind of freedom we're fighting for ther...

3601 Only 7,000 dead and wounded Today I was reading about the Battle of St. Mihiel in northeastern France in September 1918 during WWI. The...

583 Armistice Day, November 11, 1918 My parents were small children when the First World War ended in 1918. They didn't know each oth...