Collecting My Thoughts

3252 Bo Derek has turned 50 and Tuesday Weld is 63. They need new first names if they're going to go and get old on us.

Thirteen Things I've been Wondering about This Week This is the season of wonder, so I've been wondering, in no particular order, wh...

3250 Head for the Resale Shop if you've gained or lost weight. Today I went to the American Cancer Society Shop up the street and bou...

3249 Of Cabbages and Kings And Poles. A cancer study of Polish women in Warsaw and Polish-American women in Chicago, showed that the Euro...

3248 Chef training for the homeless is the topic of Roger Thurow's lastest installment in his series about creative ways to address po...

3247 Straight-from-the-book classes are history was the headline of the Columbus Dispatch story on Monday. Actually, they were history w...

New drug pulled from trials Yesterday the big story was that Pfizer's experimental cholesterol drug, torcetrapibhad had been removed fr...

3245 When my husband does this I know he's asleep. The following is the reply of John Hogan, Commonwealth Edison Supervisor of News Info...

3244 The Christmas Meme I saw this at Gracey's. 1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog, definitely. I purchase it, then cut it in 1/2...

3243 130,000 but who's counting The site meter rolled over at 2:14 p.m. today to 130,000; someone from Madrid clocking in at 8:14 p.m...

3242 But is it comfortable? The reason I always buy a Dodge/Plymouth mini-van. Well, that and I am a value shopper. I'm also confident...

3241 Visit my new link This blogger is in my book club, and I just found out last night that she has a blog. Life of a Domestic Disaster ...

3240 How many hours are wasted messing with new software and technology? I should have been prepared; this is my fourth printer, more if ...

Monday Memories Have I ever told you why my mother was a Democrat (according to my father)? My parents were married over 65 years. My mo...

3239 Dress up for Jesus, pt. 2 Over a week ago, I wrote my little hymn to women's fashion, "Dress up, dress up for Jesus," ...

3237 Dropping in on strangers Most of the blogs I read are written by strangers. If I return often enough, there is a sense that I at le...

3236 Greg Oden We finally got to see Greg Oden play, Ohio State's 7' freshman basketball player. He looks twice his age--like h...

3235 Working for the Fed "New data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis confirm that the average federal civilian worker earns $...

3234 New art show going up If you're in central Ohio and enjoy attending art shows, please stop by and see the Winter show of the Pump...

3233 Go to Flopping Aces for the run down on "Who is Jamil Hussein," the AP informant who apparently doesn't exist. Sort of ...