Collecting My Thoughts

 Our son Phil had a good friend, Sonja, who was battling breast cancer as he fought glioblastoma. They spent a lot of time talking/texting a...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named the 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19, 2005, at the age of 78, and chose the name o...

From Dr. Ben and Candy Carson: Today, November 6, 2017 we lost my dear mother, Sonya Carson. Although she came from an impoverished backg...

This is June 22 sunrise We got back from Scotland a week-ago, and since we had some obligations in Columbus yesterday,  rather than driv...

I'm gradually increasing my walk time here at Lakeside (bursitis pain), and I like to walk along the lakefront and read all the memorial...

Wording on the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Gettysburg (dedicated 1965). "A memorial to soldiers and sailors of the Con...

What they put around the WWII memorial in Washington, DC to frustrate the veterans who'd had their trip planned for weeks. Thank you Re...

"A design that calls for a grove of trees reflected infinitely by 12-foot-long mirrors was selected today for New York’s first large-sc...

This morning on my walk along the lakefront at sunrise, I stopped at a memorial tree, about 15 ft tall, dedicated to a young man who had die...

Arlington Cemetery grave offenses When I heard a story on the news about problems at Arlington Cemetery, I said to my husband, tongue in che...

Do good now, not from the grave WSJ today reported financially strapped colleges are auctioning the goose that use to lay their golden eggs-...

4329 Scrap the Flight 93 Memorial WorldNet Daily reports: "Two years ago U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo asked the Park Service to revamp a pr...

Veterans' Day Today is the 89th anniversary of the end of World War I--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I...

4050 Memorials at Lakeside Some light the way with period sensitive street lamps, this one in remembrance of Hazel and Wendell Lutes, Sr. wh...