Collecting My Thoughts

I'm a huge fan of Charles Craigmile's theology classes, and have followed him about 10 years now.  I'm usually a little behind. ...

 Last night we watched the movie, "Sound of Music" the fictional account of the Trapp Family singers starring Julie Andrews. Chris...

Written by the famed Anglican author C.S. Lewis in 1948. Very applicable to today: “How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to re...

I've been looking at the Ohio "Dashboard" for Covid this morning. The state fatality rate is .012 from Covid with 922,143 case...

Using statistical analysis, a senior lecturer from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has demonstrated that COVID-19 has resulted in no excess d...

"CS Lewis wrote this in 1948 after the dawn of the atomic age: “In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How ar...

Just so you know--life is dangerous. Number of deaths for leading causes of death: Heart disease: 647,457 Cancer: 599,108 Acc...

“It turns out that not all of us are news junkies. She [clerk in the grocery story who still has a job] didn’t know what was going on in Cal...

She was 48 with a husband and children and a large family of parents, brothers and sister, and many nieces and nephews. Her cancer was very ...

There was a catch in her voice.  “Do you know any Scripture I could read to the dying, you know, for comfort?” I told her I would check with...

The executor or administrator takes care of the following tasks: caring for all property of the decedent; receiving payments due ...

On the way home from the coffee shop this morning I was listening to a discussion of death and judgement by two Catholics. Frankly, I can...

"America’s family businesses and farmers were hit by a large estate tax increase, from 0% to 35%, at the beginning of 2011, making pla...

Carlos Alcala who writes for McClatchy had an article in today's Dispatch about the reluctance to use the D (death, dying) word. My good...

Forgetting There's an old country song that goes something like, I've forgotten more about him than you'll ever know. At my age...