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...

Many years ago, I read a short piece in a woman's magazine about clearing out the home of an elderly woman after her death. Among her be...

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...

Dave Graf recalls: "When I was a kid (starting as early as age 5), I loved to take Route 64 to Chicago to visit my grandparents. They ...

Four years ago I wrote this. Nothing much has changed. Not only do I not know how to use a smart phone as many my age do, but I don’t know ...

Buckeye Chuck and Punxsutawney Phil are both predicting an early spring, but it's sunny in Columbus, and if they were here they would se...

In the summer of 1958 I lived on my grandparents’ farm near Franklin Grove, IL when they were in their 80s and I was 18.  (See Part 1 )  The...

If you had said to me, “Remember the time you lived at the farm and the well was dry?” I would have responded, “I remember the farm, but do...

We all know what September 11 means, that scary day in 2001. It was sitting in my office of our home watching TV, and saw the second plane a...

Christmas of 66, my unit received a bunch of letters from 4th graders in Des Moines. At the time, the public wasn't getting a lot of a...

I don't know how many MMHS graduates remember this, but they actually did close the school one September in the 1950s because it was too...

I've never seen an incident like the Dr Dao vs. Chicago police and United Airlines, but I have been on a flight with a belligerent, unru...

Over the week-end I finished up my massive project begun a few weeks ago--rereading all the Christmas letters I'd saved since 1987, and ...

I'm drawing a blank about what my parents may have said about their Thanksgiving holidays.  And for myself as a kid, I don't remembe...

We'll be eating on the deck this evening. Baked chicken, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and chocolate pie.  I was looking through so...

I was watching news coverage of the mental state of the former TV news colleague in Virginia who killed two reporters of WDBJ- TV live on c...

When I was a teen-ager, my mother would often remind me to put on an apron when working in the kitchen. Sort of irritated me, but after all,...

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

When we were students at the University of Illinois there was a Spudnut shop in Urbana. It's gone, but this one is in Canoga, Park, CA...

I’ve been living in Columbus since 1967, and I admit that until today I’d never hear of Jerome, Ohio, which is just up the road near Dublin,...