Collecting My Thoughts

# 111 [In the] Black Friday I never shop the two days after Thanksgiving. I always look at those six hour specials that I see in the fliers...

# 110 Penmanship Last night we went to the dollar theater to see Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. It really was...

# 109 Harry Smith radio talk show host? Harry Smith was named an anchor of CBS’ The Early Show in October 2002. He has served as the host o...

# 108 A cup of coffee on Thanksgiving morning Many employers really do give Thanksgiving Day off. This morning I had quite a search to find...

# 107 The Great August 2003 Blackout I was sitting in a music class at Lakeside that day in mid-August when shortly after 4 p.m. the lights...

106 Wenger, Wanger, Winger, Wingert--you may be one too! My grandfather was only 16 and living on a farm in Montgomery County, Ohio, when h...

THURSDAY THIRTEEN Blogroll

# 105 Low fat, sugarless, high carb and delicious Yesterday I bought a huge amount of raisins at a low price. We eat raisins on our oatmea...

# 104 Tyndale and the King James Bible As a Christian, I’ve experienced distress and amusement at the battles that rage among other Christia...

# 103 Rand Beers and national security Can a man who until March worked for Bush and since July is working for a man who wants his job, say ...

# 102 Inspired by tzungtzu, Chinese dumplings Dora Hsiung, my college roommate, has an exhibit at a theater lobby in Harvard Loeb Drama Cent...

#101 The big lie My Kroger grocery receipt for 11/21/03 says I saved $9.61, and that my total Kroger Plus Card savings to date is $659.22. I...

#100 Career track protestors If you check on the Volokh Conspiracy, a group of lawyers who blog together (see link on the right hand side), ...

#99 Desperately using Susan Susan Sarandon on the cover of Heifer International catalog? And other actors on the inside? The organization wa...

#96 Where was your money during the slump? Which companies are Web smart? Do you know what your investments were doing during the slump? Th...

#95 Poor writing The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article on poor academic writing in the (free) Oct. 24 edition. It is so poorly wr...

#94 What you believed at age 13 “Adults essentially carry out the beliefs they embraced when they were young,” he explained (George Barna). ...

#93 Civil War ties My great aunt Ada’s father was born in 1862 . I think that is quite remarkable. It seems like more of a tie to the past...

#92 The house mouse, pest not pet I was quite surprised last week on our first really cold day to see a mouse scurry into the garage when I ...

#91 Index to themes, topics, passing thoughts, and ideas, updated academe, libraries 10, 26, 29, 38, 54,67, 70, 75 art and artists 54, 6...