Collecting My Thoughts

 In May we sold our summer home in Lakeside, Ohio, after owning it for 34 years. Part of the sale contract was we would stay until Labor Day...

  Association of napping with incident cardiovascular events in a prospective cohort study - PubMed (nih.gov) This study was mentioned in Jo...

  A happy accident. Sometimes that's an unplanned baby who becomes mom's caregiver in her old age; sometimes it's a splash of co...

The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice. The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water ...

"Lately I'm saying 'I used to’ a lot," my friend said while we were having coffee to catch up after our trip to Spain.  ...

There’re so many people saying, ‘Well, I can’t draw a straight line,’ or, ‘I can’t do this or that,’ and it’s interesting how, if you sto...

Instead of buying off the shelf storage units for the garage, we had some new shelves and a tall closet built to hang out with the former ki...

I don't know when faux finishes became popular, but I know the guy decorators of our place were here before 1990. Most of the faux is go...

This looks much harder than blogging But maybe I should try it. My New Year's Resolution to get back to painting lasted about 3 weeks. ...

How will this help world peace? It's nice I suppose to be idealistic, but I do wonder how holding hands around a pyramid built centuries...

Friday Family Photo Here it is. The new bed, with the new bedspread, and the new wall color. Not quite finished yet. The bathrooms stil...