Collecting My Thoughts

Happy Birthday to my dad--he would be 112 today, died in 2002. I don't have a lot of mushy, gushy remembrances like some of my FBF or b...

Complaints by the locals about imported migrant labor is not new to the U.S. Native born Californians were very hostile to the dust bowl agr...

I came across an item about soldiers and wars in my blog entry of June 1, 2008.  I didn't follow through on my question about how have s...

Glenn Beck is a radio personality, an author, and a huge fan of books--he advocates for book reading, for research, and for being informed. ...

Some of you are younger and not in the 1% age group. I decided to send it as a history lesson of what life was like then. Yes, I am one of...

Our book club (on Zoom these days) will be discussing "The Candy Bombers" by Andrei Cherny this Monday. It's an absorbing book...

In adult Sunday school class at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church yesterday Dave told us a vivid story of how we are to defeat Satan. He said ...

Mother's Day 2010 In the early years of the United States, many Christians didn't celebrate Christmas at all--it was just anothe...

When we were kids, November 11 was called Armistice Day—because it was the 11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11 th month of 1918—the end...

I teared up when I read that the remains of soldiers would be returned from North Korea. Their parents are gone now, but there are siblings ...

My great niece Catie who lives in Florida asked on Facebook what was our favorite Christmas song.  I mentioned "I'll be home for Ch...

Before the heat became unbearable,   I was on my walk in the apartment complex close by, and he was on his walker. I stopped to chat wit...

The Mount Morris Index editor, Worthington Thomas, kept track of the town's young men during WWII. From the going away party at his pare...

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In sorting through the basket of Christmas cards and letters this week, I found one from my cousin Sharon who lived in a Chicago suburb when...

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII (we used to call it VJ Day) The Lakeside symphony orchestra performed a fabulous progra...

Our educational theme this week at Lakeside is WWII. We've reviewed the horrors of the European theater and the Pacific theater. Within ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArErdaiOW0 I consider him the best writer of the 20th century.  One volume of his history of the 20th c...

What a find!  I was browsing the shelves at Volunteers of American on Henderson Rd. today and found this title by the prolific, incredible...

Our book club selection for December is no easier than The Book Thief of last month—another WWII story, although this one isn’t fiction. T...