Collecting My Thoughts

407 The last day of July Lakeside streets and cottages could tell you a thousand love stories--the community is over 130 years old. The vaca...

406 Stories about family Another nice vacation story from one of my links, Shush, written by a young librarian , Greg. He tells of his famil...

405 Entertainment just steps away At Lakeside, I can get a year's supply of culture and entertainment just by walking down the street. I...

404 The complementary colors In art class today we were told that surgeons' scrubs are green because it is the complementary color of re...

401 Enmity at the Archives In Friday's Wall Street Journal there is an article, "Enmity at the archives" about the book store ...

403 What are great vacations made of? Take a look at Hip Liz's blog for a great road trip through California, Oregon and Washington. Hi...

402 First donut of the season With no car for a few days, I needed to improvise on my usual routine, so I tucked $2.00 in my pocket and head...

400 Pleasant surprises A stranger knocked on the door yesterday afternoon to inquire about our paintings. She's decided that next year s...

399 A view of the two Americas Consider these two statements, quotations that open the essay on “Two Americas” by Kim du Toit . He’s a pro-g...

398 Plastic Nation “Hi, I’m calling on behalf of Dippity do dah-express to let you know we have a plan for your credit card debt and can p...

397 Thinking how John Edwards became a rich man I’ve paid more attention to legal matters since I served on a jury two years ago. On the...

396 Linda, Whoopie and Elton Some people are screaming "freedom of speech," and “it’s censorship.” That is nonsense. It is capi...

395 Man’s best friend has a problem--the man Having worked in a veterinary medicine library for 14 years, I've seen more than my share ...

394 Do you know where your car is? There’s an article today at American Spectator about EDRs--event data recorders, or “black boxes” that...

393 How do they do that? There are greater issues to think about--the war, the election, why Blacks think they need to vote for Democrats,...

392 If it were your Mother, should he get to vote? Now the Democats want ex-felons to vote. What a constituency! I'm wondering if th...

391 Art Show Opening The Katharine Crampton Memorial Art Show opened last night here in Lakeside with a sneak preview at 5 p.m. Huge crowd. ...

390 Blogger Test Here's an interesting site to test your blogging personality .  Here's how I tested--although I think the number of...

389 The week's entertainment Tonight’s entertainment was a walk along the lakefront and sitting on a park bench watching the sunset over...

388 Collecting Thoughts before they're gone On the way to the coffee shop this morning I was listening to NPR--from what city, I don...