Collecting My Thoughts

What's stressing you this holiday season? Each year we see articles like the one I saw at OSU Health:   "This year the top sources ...

As my friends and family know, I've been writing this blog for almost 20 years (began October 2003). That's how I met some nice peop...

 Finding a leak on New Year's Day is never good.  Finding any repairman 30 years ago was expensive on a holiday, and today in 2022, it...

Many years ago my daughter inherited her grandmother's deviled egg plate. Oh, the wonderful egg delicacies we enjoyed for Indiana holida...

Our son who has brain cancer has decided that this year we won’t celebrate November birthdays, Thanksgiving, or Christmas.  Of course, we ar...

From Christopher Buckley : Since we've already entered the Bermuda Triangle of the holidays, (Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's Eve...

Our niece and nephew from Indianapolis are with us at Lakeside to celebrate the July 4 holiday.  After church on the lakefront, we went to t...

Here are ten reasons left-wingers cut Trump voters from their lives according to National Review.  I don't agree with all of these. Fo...

Read this for the instructions; not difficult.  Great for a holiday party.   http://mylitter.com/recipes/vanilla-lemon-chex-mix-recipe/  ...

I’d heard this before—actually from all the talking heads in the news, about how everyone is supposed to stay off politics on Thanksgiving...

Sally Sims Stokes doesn’t mention Phil in her professional presentations, but I think her first library job had to do with taking care of ...

Michael Smith writes: "What does it say about a society that has grown comfortable with cursing so ubiquitous as to be a normal part of...

Back from our Easter trip to Illinois. We met many new people. Like the two policemen, young, handsome and polite, who gave us a $130 ticket...

For Christmas I did the real maple syrup and mustard glaze and it was just heavenly, but thought I’d save these for a future time. Ingredi...

I'm doing Thanksgiving dinner for our family--first in a lot of years.  We’ll attend church at 10 a.m. at UALC.  Everything is done exce...

From my daughter, 1976, Texas Ware Melamine From my son, 1977, same project, probably the same teacher. My handmade card for my mo...

As I contemplate a counter full of odd shaped and homeless containers with lids sitting on my kitchen counter, I think about two things. 1)...

Today is an important holiday (3 days beginning last night) for Muslims. Just like our Easter gets overshadowed by Christmas, but is the mo...