Collecting My Thoughts

After being delayed by colds, we finally got to celebrate two birthdays and two anniversaries at Hyde Park Restaurant.  Upper Arlington | Ho...

 We've uncovered the deck furniture and washed off the tabletop and chair webbing. Today we enjoyed an early birthday celebration with a...

 Social media--e-mail and Facebook and Instagram--will never give you joy in memories 80 years later--those pixels will be long gone (unless...

 Today is Phil's 52nd birthday. We will always miss him.                

Facebook makes a big deal about birthdays.  And often I forget or overlook those notices, even though many people just love receiving congra...

Earlier in January it occurred to me that I should write something on the 20th anniversary of my mother's death, but the 24th came and w...

Today my friend of 45 years, Nancy, and I went out for lunch at the OSU Golf Club, and I’d had a hair cut and style with Melissa earlier, so...

Bobby Burns parties have been celebrated on January 25 since 1801, the 5th anniversary of his death.  So with the rest of the world last nig...

Happy 81st birthday to my sister Carol who died in 1996 at 58. We still miss you. Photo is 1989 with her daughter and son. Recently we got t...

My cousin Gayle is such a faithful events greeter, and when the family lived in Alaska, we would be treated with colorful postcards and a pe...

What a great birthday dinner Saturday night. I set the table with china, and my daughter and son-in-law brought in a fabulous lasagne dinn...

I mentioned I was planning to attend a 50s theme party, but didn't say for whom because is was an elaborate surprise.  Our niece Joan in...

From the first day he’s kept our life interesting and lively. He’s got the curly hair and long legs I’d love to have. Smart as a whip and ...

With two birthdays and a national holiday falling within the same week, it used to be sort of hectic the 3rd or 4th week in November. There ...

In his honor, people are wearing loud, outrageous socks.

Easter was a two-fer. Sometimes Thanksgiving is a Three-fer, since we have two birthdays that week. It's always the same question. ...

Sometimes it's just not worth it. I look and look and look. Some cards are so not true. When my dad was alive it was virtually impossibl...

We look like a Hallmark card my husband said this morning. "The table is set with the good china, you're preparing food in the kit...

Entering the fall back season This is the time of year I dread; "spring forward, fall back" when Americans all get an extra hour o...