Collecting My Thoughts

The film at The Estates (formerly the Forum) on Sunday was Fried Green Tomatoes, a very popular 1992 retelling of Fannie Flagg's best se...

 Downsizing isn't fun.  Everyone (almost) says so and has advice. There's a lot of sadness in going through items packed away and fo...

 We've uncovered the deck furniture and washed off the tabletop and chair webbing. Today we enjoyed an early birthday celebration with a...

Since January I've been keeping a close watch on my good friend Nancy Long, who has been in and out of the hospital several times.  Fort...

We've both been trying to remember the name of an electrician from Cleveland who was on Bob's Haiti team and was a friend on Faceboo...

"With deep sorrow, we announce that Clara Bernetta Mellum, nee Braaten, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at her home in Columbus,...

It's amazing what turns up in old e-mails. Sometimes I can't get them to open. But the one I'm using for this "memory...

Six years ago I wrote about the joy of new friends I'd made in the previous 15 years.  Since I didn't use surnames in the article, I...

https://www.facebook.com/HillTVLive/videos/629277291444622  Hate speech is protected.  Democrats believe ridiculing and threatening the life...

 Came across a note I'd written to a friend in December 2000. We had been in a small group together through our church and had attended ...

She was hoping for a white Christmas and she got one. We get very little snow in central Ohio, and only rarely on Christmas, but we had abou...

 I bought a 2021 calendar with full pages for each day, and thought it would make a nice "gratitude" notebook.  However, the noteb...

At Lakeside, although we only see our neighbors for about 10 weeks (if we're owners) we become close because walking together to church,...

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 ...

I received the most delightful Christmas letter today from a friend with ALS. She is focusing on living, not dying. She's so thankful to...

In those days, Cancer came and waged war against Phil's brain. Phil Bruce therefore said to his medical posse, "Pick out the best...

We had a wonderful time with the Halls and Mallettes from California (we met in Scotland in 2017) touring our great city, the OSU campus, en...

December is always a fun month with lots of special activities like concerts, dinners and get togethers. So in noting our January schedule, ...

We had a wonderful Christmas party/progressive dinner with our neighbors last night. Such fun and delightful people.

On Facebook, Christopher Buckley writes: “It has long been my dour and sour view that you don't get to make good friends later in life...