Collecting My Thoughts

3378 A beautiful quilt story Two weeks ago this Saturday the Visual Arts Ministry of UALC hung a quilt show at our Mill Run location. I...

3377 Even I was shocked by this Recently, someone left a comment at one of my critiques of the direction of public libraries saying I wasn...

3376 Looks like a crouching cat This is a screen capture of my statistics for the past year for Collecting My Thoughts. Sort of looks li...

Prayer Request Not much blogging today. This is a photo of my brother's grandson and his daddy, who has been injured. About 10 days ...

3374 How much does it cost? to support a single adult who isn't going to college? There was another scare story in USA Today last wee...

3373 Americans and health care Something to consider when thinking about demands for government health care. This writer takes a slightly di...

Monday Memories--What Shirley told Ann It's hard for me to resist a used book sale at the public library, a used book store like the ...

The nice men in the ambulance Can you imagine her horror as she listens to her voice mail from her aged mother who tells her she had a fal...

3370 Let's rethink baning DDT It's not really worth killing all these people, is it? For you folks counting bodies in Iraq, I remi...

3369 Boxer's no champion for women A commenter and story reported over at Amy's blog wrote: "OK, Rice has no children servin...

3368 The public library as lyceum In the 19th century, before the era of a tax supported, public library there were lyceums--public lectu...

3367 Do you start your meetings on time? The thought occurred to me this week I have probably wasted a month of my life waiting for meeti...

3366 Investing in real estate David Crook who writes for the Wall Street Journal has a new book, Wall Street Journal Complete Real Estate...

3365 What puzzles me about libraries Keep in mind that I was never trained to be a librarian in a public library (there are four types--a...

3364 Friday Family Photo Kleppinger Clippinger Klepinger--that's a family name in my genealogy (maternal side). I wish I had a photo of ...

3363 Send Mom on a cruise Although my children might tell you otherwise, I'm not one of those high-maintenance mothers. I rarely say,...

3362 Any stick will do when Nancy Pelosi pounds the President. I was looking back through searches for her exact words when she was claim...

3361 Is it cold somewhere? It's back to the young 50s in Ohio, but my tips on frozen car doors has had 13 hits today.

3360 Librarians and Nurses, peas in a pod? The American Library Association has great difficulty minding the store--er--the library. Is ...

Poetry Thursday Indiana claims James Whitcomb Riley as the "Hoosier Poet," and there is a collection of his manuscripts at the L...