Collecting My Thoughts

On January 21, 2026, our dear sweet Betty went to be with her Lord and Savior.  She probably greeted every artist in heaven by name. Over 50...

  https://www.coylefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Patricia-Foley-8/?   We came to know the Foleys in the 1990s when they hired Bob to be their a...

I see that local architect Phil Markwood died December 20. He was well known for his churches in the Columbus area and was a Christian. I se...

We sat behind Julia for many years in the early service at UALC.  Also we used to see her in Lakeside where she and some lady friends would ...

Jon Robert Martin, 86, a Marco Island, Florida resident since 1994, formerly of Roselle, Illinois, passed away Saturday, August 23, 2025, in...

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 met Debbie just four years ago.  Her mother lives across the street and had told her about our son Phil's diagnosis of glioblastoma i...

We returned to Columbus on Sunday for a memorial gathering in the ballroom at the Southern Hotel for Joe Schappa, who died in Florida in Mar...

Janet, my neighbor on Oak St., died recently.  I didn’t know her well, having met her maybe in 2017 or 2018.  We walked to some programs tog...

Isobel C. Steele, age 99, of Wickliffe, passed away March 2, 2017. She was born in Cleveland, on July 19, 1917, to the late Dan and Mayme Mc...

Summer 2012 at a family get together, Margaret and Harlan Margaret's h.s. graduation photo, and Pinecrest Newsletter photo 2016 ...

Three Word Wednesday gives writers, poets and those who journal a mid-week jolt of creativity. Each week, three words are selected; you cr...

My nephew Richard died yesterday morning in Alaska. The last time I saw him was at my father’s funeral in 2002.  He and his wife Jessica had...

When I heard on Catholic radio this morning that Christopher Hitchens had died from cancer I thought, well, now he knows. When I stand befor...

We were planning a trip to Indianapolis today to say good-bye, but last night he died. We had visited him in June and saw a shadow of the m...

Professor Goldhor interviewed me when I applied for the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana. I don...

This morning at 11 we'll be gathering again with UALC family and friends -- second time this week -- to say good-bye. Sue and I hadn...

We were saddened to learn of the death of our friend Tim Schuler. For many years he lived in the Greensview area of Upper Arlington and owne...

The double whammy of aging I've blogged about the verbs for death and dying used in obituaries, but I hadn't really thought about th...

It's Spring Do you know where your New Year's Resolutions are? I just came across my Thursday Thirteen of 13 Resolutions . I have o...