Collecting My Thoughts

There's an editorial in WSJ today from a woman who had been told by her doctors she had to give up high heels. There's a pay wall, b...

 

I'm not sure why I posted this 10 years ago on Facebook, except to tell of my parents' voices in my head. They are about 60 in the p...

Charles Ballard, November 11, 1931 - April 14, 2023 DIXON — Charles Arthur “Chuck” Ballard, 91, passed away on Friday, April 14, 2023, from ...

Yesterday I received a cartoon-poem from a high school friend, Rusty Rush, about the Golden Years. Actually, I didn't know him in high s...

 Our 12 year old neighbor was sitting on the porch talking to Bob when I got home from a nutrition lecture (no one can eat that many fruits ...

Floyd Eugene Corbett, 91, of Mount Morris, passed away at KSB Hospital in Dixon on Monday, May 30, 2022. Gene was born on December 19, 1930...

The book of Hebrews in the NT (Ch. 11 and 12) says we have a cloud of witnesses --and that's all the OT saints and the ones who died for...

 It was not my intention to look through old photos.  Old framed photos.  Old, dusty and moldy framed photos with glass that had to be washe...

I knew a lot of amazing women when I was growing up. My grandmothers and aunts (Bessie, Leanor, Marian, Gladys, Lois, Dorothy, Muriel, Mary)...

Today I received a nice photo of our son Phil who died in April. My cousin Sharon who lives in Canada sent it in a letter. It was taken in ...

The Crew Cuts were a Canadian boys group popular when I was a teen.  Today I was trying to get the cd player in my clock radio to work, and ...

   Our children loved our vacations at my mother's farm located between Franklin Grove and Ashton, IL. My niece Cindy sent this trea...

Philip Vincent Bruce was born November 25, 1968 in Columbus, Ohio, and died April 21, 2020 in the home of his parents, Robert and Norma Bruc...

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...

Sunday, August 25, was the 85th anniversary of my parents’ wedding. They died in 2000 and 2002, having celebrated together 65 years during t...

Happy 82nd birthday to my sister Carol who died in 1996 at 58. We still miss you. Photo is 1989 with her daughter and son. Last year we got ...

There's a guy on Twitter claiming that the generation born between 1985-1995 is the most unique [sic] ever because of what they've e...

Looking at the excellent stats in this article, I see I might have been making close to minimum when I worked in high school and saved enoug...

This is a photo of my nephew David apparently doing a little emergency repair or battery replacement on his grandson’s Tickle Me Elmo. S...