Collecting My Thoughts

Although I haven't read it yet, First Things has an article "How Trump won over women voters."   How Trump Won Over Women Vo...

It must have hurt to have to say good things about the Trump economy or the nation in general in this Pew (left of center) Report, which cam...

 Our niece Joan lives in Indianapolis.  I often see on Facebook places she's taken her class (she's a teacher) or her grandchildren,...

The command by Ezra to divorce the foreign wives certainly sounds cruel and not inclusive by our modern values.  We're reading Ezra toda...

Because our AC died on the hottest day of the summer (95) and current EPA laws on R-22 prevent it being fixed (will have to replace) I was t...

How did black Americans fare under that mean, racist, Republican tweeting president? "Black median household income in 2019 increased 7...

It’s interesting that even liberals who see everything in the 21 st century as dark, racist and the fault of the GOP, can think of the 50s-...

This is my high school classmate Ebba, and her family—in a puzzle which she has put together. She’s in the front row between grandchildren...

Don’t Divorce: Powerful Arguments for Saving and Revitalizing Your Marriage By Diane Medved, Ph.D. Statistics show that 30 percent of fi...

Pew Research has determined this--but also says highly religious Americans are also no more likely to exercise and eat right or recycle than...

We spent the night at Joan's home, and Deb was at Jean's. On Sunday we all went to Cornerstone Baptist Church where Jean and Joan...

Robert D. Putnam was our program at Lakeside last night--he’s an entertaining, engaging speaker, about my age, married 55 years, a Harvar...

On Thursday we drove to Indianapolis so we could see Bob’s brother, Rick, who was there for an Elk’s national convention.  He is the Exalted...

“Among women in the United States, postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand. The share of highly educated w...

Today I was looking at the U.S. Census.  Now, to answer a question, you can’t always get a table of Honey Crisp apples.  Sometimes it’s appl...

Derek Thompson seems to think that married couples have children because of tax deductions. I've heard of welfare mothers having more ba...

Listening to the local Catholic radio I hear many things that are unfamiliar, or I think were settled in the 16th century reformation--at le...

"It killed my Dad that he worked the dirt to pay the taxes to pay the checks of teachers who told his kids that working the dirt wasn’t...

This memory piece was written about 15-20 years ago and I found it undated in long-hand on yellow lined paper, apparently written specifical...

These were found at Black Enterprise. I was reading an on-line article on how to survive on one income for a formerly 2-income household, al...