Collecting My Thoughts

This morning I watched a very sweet PSA, "Put a little love in your heart" and the sponsors were a variety of organizations and na...

All systems are made of people who fail, and some of those people are evil.  But capitalism is the best of the bad, and offers the world the...

“There is very little that a man with Barack Obama’s views and proclivities should love about the country, beyond the fact that its people a...

Best scorned lover song of all time, cross overs galore--blues, pop, disco--including the ocean from England to U.S. Such a talented singer/...

Yesterday we were eating lunch in the dining room of the Hotel Lakeside.  We’d ordered our food and were waiting while conversing with our f...

A guy named Vince writes an advice and review column for romance writers and readers. This one is pretty good-- 106 ways to show (not tell)...

"Lakeside is for lovers" is a phrase I’ve seen on cards, buttons, t-shirts and other memorabilia. And it’s true--and not just for ...

Lakeside Lovers Along the lakefront, lovers have walked for over 130 years. Some stop to record it. A century ago they might have carved on ...

Orvieto We were hanging an art show today (Jan Kotch, Worthington) at the UALC Mill Run Church, and one of the paintings was of Positano. I...

Seen at . . . Vital Signs Blog Between the Rollover Republicans (I'll scratch your back, you rub my tummy) and the sycophant, slobber...

Three word Wednesday The words this week are Entwine, Forfeit and Tryst. Here's how it works, and anyone can play. Take the words proved...

The last day of July This is a rerun from July 31, 2004. Our friend Jane mentioned 3 years ago did buy a cottage. ----------------- Lakeside...

3699 The unintended consequences of protecting women Don Imus and Mike Nifong aren't the only guys with funny names apologizing in sto...

3498 A poem about love and marriage Today I read a story in our paper about a couple married in 1943 when he was still in uniform, who wer...

407 The last day of July Lakeside streets and cottages could tell you a thousand love stories--the community is over 130 years old. The vaca...