Collecting My Thoughts

Have you ever thought about how much the 4 candidates actually do have in common?  Vance's wife, Usha, and Kamala Harris are daughters o...

I go to Lifetime Fitness (I call it the gym) about 5x a week. Sometimes parents bring their children--I think they need to be 12 to be a gue...

 Our book club met yesterday (via Zoom) to discuss Jacqueline Winspear's memoir.  She is the author of the Maisie Dobbs series, that my ...

When I was a child I was horse crazy. Not only did I pretend my blue bike was a horse named "Red" (my best friend JoElla's bik...

Recently it's been reported that use of a nutritional supplement in children (pre-natal through 2 years) has had a remarkable affect on ...

“If, many years from now someone were to live in your home, what would you want them to know about it? What does house and home mean to you?...

“Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1...

With the exception of meningitis, I had these plus scarlet fever.  Trust me, it’s not pleasant.

Yes, I went around the block a few times on skates similar to these. Cracks in the sidewalks, bumps, skinned knees, and most painful, some...

If  you're anti-vaccine, please check out this interactive map about outbreaks of easily preventable diseases. Most vaccines weren't...

Today's new word is TRAJECTORY At least it is new to me the way it is used in Archives of General Psychiatry 2008;65(10) 1185-1192. My s...

Guys and dolls--paper that is Collecting paper dolls is not something I do, but because I have scanned a few, my site meter shows that some...

Thursday Thirteen--13 discussion starters In the margins of my Serendipity Bible for Groups (4th ed. NIV) there are "warm up" que...

Totally Optional Prompt Today's prompt is a poem by Ted Kooser about the horse, "its hide a hot shudder of satin/ head stony and w...

4101 Polygamy might be better than nannygamy Polygamy will be the next change in marriage law. After the gays push through same sex legal un...

Friday Family Photo Yesterday the WSJ ran a parenting article about overscheduling children in their summer activities. In my mind's ...

Monday Memories Did I ever tell you about the end of my childhood? My 11th birthday was in the fall of 1950. During the summer of 1950 the c...

Monday Memories Have I ever told you I was horse crazy when I was a little girl? During 1949 and 1950, when I wasn’t hanging out at the l...