Collecting My Thoughts

Although it's a gorgeous day, it's a tad chilly for me to walk outside, so I've been on the exercycle watching reruns of Antique...

This is an AI generated explanation of a Top Gun pilot:   "A Topgun pilot is a highly skilled fighter pilot who has completed the U.S....

There's a guy in our church I've known slightly over the years--a fantastic musician and a gourmet chef. What a combination. So we...

What life lessons did your parents teach you? We had a question like that in a group exercise at the women's club this week. I wrote a b...

From a blogging friend (now a Facebook friend) "So……my dryer quit working and the repairman came today to fix it. Can’t be fixed. Wanna...

   Sue Flaherty: I will miss you and your insight. Hurry back! Sara White Martin: I'll miss you! Keith Fernanes: I know where to find y...

Interesting morning at the fitness palace today. Someone described his very large dog--about 200 lbs--who ate four pounds, yes pounds, not ...

I heard this week that Lucille Snodgrass,  the mother of my high school friend Nancy Snodgrass Falzone, had passed away.  She was living at ...

“A good way to start loving God divinely is by generously loving your spouse, children, parents, siblings, and friends. It is doubtful that ...

We have a lot of family in Florida--my sister Carol's children Cindy and Greg and grandchildren, my brother's children, my husband...

I got a sad letter this week begging me to warn the women in my life about metastatic breast cancer. So here's her story for the women i...

“Speaking to the program “Noticieros Televisa,” Francis displays his usual candor, dishing details about the secret conclave that elected h...

What a fabulous way to end the old and start the new.  UALC had its 12th New Year's Eve Jazz Worship service, and as I looked around, ...

When I was in school, September was always special—I loved getting back into the routine—seeing old friends, new books, fresh pencils and pa...

  July 2014 at Lakeside   1986 in aerobics class

We met in 1958 when we lived in McKinley Hall on Wright St. at the University of Illinois. Saturday we had lunch together at Panera’s and it...

Our Christmas card for 2013 was a painting by my husband of Colorado in the snow.  His card paintings are always so lovely, some people col...

Breakfast with Ron and Nancy at the Patio on Sunday; lunch on Monday with Kate at Houlihan’s; breakfast at the Idlewyld with Joan and Dan on...

This is never a problem for us because of the age of most of the people with whom we socialize, but I sure wish the people at the next tab...

for friends and family who refuse to see the evil going on right under our noses.  They cling, not to guns and religion, but to old habits a...