Collecting My Thoughts

971 Power Who was the only one with no power in this story? Terri Schiavo. The president had it. The congress had it. The governor had i...

970 Judicial Oligarchy That's what Glenn Beck was calling it this morning when it was announced that Terri Schiavo "died." ...

969 Ideas have consequences One of the things that has disturbed me about the Terri news coverage is that the outrage about the starvatio...

968 The explosion didn’t change who I am. . Thirty six year old Maj. Tammy Duckworth of the Illinois National Guard was interviewed at Wa...

967 Million dollar coupon If you clip and save coupons, I've got a deal for you. In the WSJ today the O'Keefe Group at Russ Lyon...

966 Writing your Memoirs Deborah Santana, wife of Carlos Santana for 30 years, didn’t feel a sense of her own creativity, so she enrolle...

965 Names for music groups Coming up with an original name for your garage band must be tough. What if you really make it big? Does the na...

964 Cruise Care When we took an Alaskan Cruise in 2001, I was surprised to meet people who’d taken 15-20 cruises, and older people who app...

963 Creativity My friend Bev and I went to Capital University in Bexley today to see the 19th Biennial Exhibition of the Liturgical Art Gu...

962 ABC headlines another “fake” memo They didn’t say it was “Republican,” just "GOP." Duh! What were the listeners to think? Stor...

961 How to lose a wife with no questions asked See? There are easier ways .

960 Maybe you're asking too much? Lots of bloggers gripe about blogger.com as their hosting site. I don't--well, OK, sometimes I d...

959 Tinker Tinker little Stat There was an AP Story reported in today's Wall Street Journal that will have the economists and femin...

958 Don't know, don't care That's a bit cavalier for a librarian to say about why children are hanging out at the library. At...

957 The Dream If I can remember a dream, it is usually so fractured it is not worth repeating. The dream that woke me up this morning was ...

956 A quiet Easter We had no one to spend the day with today, our daughter and son-in-law drove to Cleveland to spend time with his termin...

955 Colorado Blogging Twylah, who blogged at Lutheran in a Tipi, is folding her tent and moving on to other activities, but she has prom...

954 Young and eager to take on the world This morning (I'm going to Sunrise Service) I came across Patrick's blog about Colby Col...

953 Blogging problems This has jumped ahead a bit since I see I've repeated a few numbers in the 940s. I can correct them, but then ...

951 Those of us who volunteer. . . We see many people like this in nursing homes. Loved, cared for, manicured, shampooed, read to, respondin...