Collecting My Thoughts

Our book club assignment for September is Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder.  Here is a summary of a model program from 1985 to the present at...

Our book club is reading Tracy Kidder's book, Rough Sleepers (2023). I was researching some of his information on homelessness, and saw...

"The total annual number of binge drinks consumed per U.S. adult who reported binge drinking increased significantly by 12% from 2011 t...

Have you ever seen this statement--"Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with residents of almost all other high-income co...

Gerry Rafferty (1943-2011) The Ark " Gerry Rafferty , the Scottish singer-songwriter best known for the hits 'Baker Street...

Last Tuesday I heard a very inspiring talk on our local NPR WOSU station, Ann Fisher's All Sides, with Judges Paul Herbert and Scott Van...

Dana Jacobson If she'd been this insulting to blacks as she was to Catholics , her bosses wouldn't be excusing her for being drunk....

Needed: a savvy editor I haven't yet finished Clarence Thomas' autobiography, My Grandfather's Son , but unless he makes a big ...

3865 Are you serving alcohol to underage drinkers? About a month ago there was a big hoop-la in our community because a limousine driver r...

3620 How much did they spend on this study? A survey of University of Iowa students has confirmed the suspicion that heavy drinking can hur...