Collecting My Thoughts

318 Macho-fashion The Wall Street today featured an article on the clothing style I mentioned in #316--ultra-masculine dressing for women. ...

317 The New Life Crisis Today's Wall Street Journal called it a second mid-life crisis, but you can't go through the middle years tw...

316 A Teacher by any other Name IBM had a huge 2 page spread in today's Wall Street Journal. On the left was Nancy DeViney , a "c...

315 Bloom along the bough Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. A. E. Housman (1859-1936) It’s beauti...

314 Such a wonderful description Joseph Epstein, who wrote Envy (2003) has an article in the WSJ today about the gloom and doom attitude of...

313 Exercise and mental fitness A small note in USAToday and a long article in the Columbus Dispatch today noted that Ohio State researchers...

312 A Plug for McDonald's While on the road last week, specifically at an exit near Brighton, MI, I had the new McDonald's Cob Salad...

311 Why Women Like Kerry In today's USAToday (April 27) is the snapshot "Who Would Do a Better Job of Managing the Economy Over the...

310 Magazines look at bloggers While researching one of my other blogs In the Beginning about premiere issues, I noticed this tid-bit in Fol...

309 Festival Report #3 I went to two presentations by Lauren Winner, author of “ Girl meets God ,” an autobiography by a 24 year old Orthodo...

308 Festival Report #2 There were some heavy hitters for the presentations at the larger facilities which drew the largest crowds. The Fiel...

307 Festival Report #1 “Are you a writer? Not really. I’m a reader.” I heard that a lot at the Festival of Faith and Writing last Thursday...

306 Great weather continues This is the final day of the festival. Some long walks today, but gorgeous weather. I'm passing through th...

305 Festival Thoughts I'm here in Grand Rapids at the Festival of Faith and Writing. I've heard some great speakers/writers and am ...

304 A lovely bed and breakfast While we were in Oregon, IL over the Easter week-end, we walked up the hill and around the corner and visited...

303 Which city? Take the quiz: "Which American City Are You?" San Francisco Liberal and proud, you'll live your lifestyle howe...

302 Who's to blame? You've got to laugh--or weep. The Car Talk by Tom and Ray column in Saturday's paper carried a question by ...

301 Church of the Holy Amyloid Sharon Begley seems to be fighting a one woman science journalist battle--two articles in the Wall Street Jou...

300 Bloomed where he was planted Over at Boogie Jack’s Amost a Newsletter there is a story about his brother, who has been named Volunteer ...

299 Room with a View One of my favorite cable TV channels is HGTV--Home and Garden, especially the make-over and real estate search programs...