Collecting My Thoughts

2582 Episcopalian sound bites About 1500 Episcopalians have been in Columbus this week, but you'd think there was only one, the gay Bi...

2581 Environmental issues I believe in Al Gore is just trying to rebuild his political base. The real action has to take place locally a...

2580 Algore's vision of the future without harmful emissions Just kidding. These photos of North Korea were taken recently by a Russ...

2579 Finances, taxes, consumerism and materialism--what I've blogged This isn't everything, but it may take a while to find them all...

2578 Student debt reply Jody Minor gives this advice to the student ( story in USAToday ) at Rutgers who accumulated $116,000 of debt by gr...

Friday Family Photo Even most of my family couldn't tell you how these two photos are related. I'm guessing the b & w is 1940...

2576 Fat Doctor's Scary Story This is one of the scariest stories I've ever read on a blog. In her defense, I'll add that at...

2575 Yet another poverty series The Wall Street Journal is running another series on poverty. It is very anecdotal (they all are), but in...

2574 Desperate smoker counts pennies For 5 days I've craved Frito's Corn Chips. I knew there was a Speedway store close to the c...

2573 Recruiters outnumber students in accounting This week I'm puppy sitting because Abby, my daughter's Chihuahua has a big stap...

2572 Fraud proof identity cards Holman W. Jenkins in yesterday's WSJ proposed a "fraud proof identity card" for ALL workers...

Thursday Thirteen 13 things that puzzle me. It's not that I don't KNOW the answers, but I just don't get it. My WHY list is mu...

It's dead, Jim Checking my blog links. These library blogs are dead, dying, struggling for content, or are totally discouraged. I...

2569 How to write your Congressional representative about illegal immigration It's important that you let your Representative know tod...

2568 Thank you, Mr. President "My message to the enemy is, don't count on us leaving before we succeed," Bush said. I took h...

2567 AMA Panel Says Physicians Cannot Ethically Participate in Prisoner Interrogations "Helping with interrogations, including the p...

2566 The kitchen massacre Last night I was "inventing" a new dish for supper. It had half a pound of ground sausage, a partial...

Monday Memories Have I ever told you about the summer we bought our little Lakeside cottage? The summer of 1988 was ghastly hot--and a dro...

I remember when librarians used to do this .

2563 Sticks and stones will sell more books. David Carr of NYT writes (seen at Editor and Publisher): "Without the total package, Ms...