Collecting My Thoughts

You'll enjoy this movie on climate change It's not CO2, it's the sun that is driving global climate change. But of course, you a...

3587 Canadian voice of calm in a heated debate in which some want to shut down the alternate viewpoints. This interview with Dr. Tim Ball ap...

3586 The Old man's draft registration Some time back, I mentioned that I was able to find my grandfather's draft registration for W...

3585 Break a leg, Sally This phrase often said to thespians almost came true for one of my blog links, Sally Lomax, of England. She was p...

Poetry Thursday #11 Today's totally optional challenge is to find a word we don't know in the dictionary and write a poem using it w...

Thursday Thirteen It's been awhile--let's see if I can remember how to do this. Here's some random thoughts for a Thursday. 1. ...

3582 My letter to Rush Dear Rush, I listen to you most days, and take you along on my walks in the park enjoying the effects of global chan...

3581 Alternative Medicine--buy this book! Alternative medicine; the Christian handbook, updated, expanded, Zondervan, 2006 by Donal O'...

3580 To report abuse Have you ever thought of picking up the phone when you see this statement on a government publication: "To repor...

3579 Have schools gone off the deep end on being "safe?" Glenn Beck interviewed a father, Frank Harmeier, last week whose ten yea...

3578 Pamela Hess, UPI correspondent Don't miss her interview on C-SPAN talking about what she saw in Iraq. I don't think I've e...

3577 It's naughty to be not nice DePauw University (Greencastle, IN) has pulled its approval from the Delta Zeta sorority. It seems that...

3576 Advice for the 2008 presidential candidates While cleaning out some files, I found this one written for the 2004 campaign. No one lis...

3575 Compression hose I've been checking regularly on my daughter, diagnosed with deep vein thombosis (DVT) a week ago. She had three s...

Monday Memories--Little Alma Fay Some time in the 1990s I heard about Alma Fay, baby daughter of my great grandparents, born in Illinois af...

3573 Music outside the box My friend Sharon performs with the trio, Synchronicity--piano, cello and violin. I've long enjoyed her musi...

3572 Mismatch: Why our world no longer fits our bodies The review of this 2006 title in Nature , Feb. 8, 2007, caught my eye because of th...

3571 Move over guys Here come the ladies(?) you've seen on Dr. Phil and Jerry Springer spilling their guts and glory story. Story at C...

3570 NIMBY A survey by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, revealed that 95% of the 400 scientists surveyed across a...

Friday Family Photo--Leesburg VA This photo of my mother, sisters and two nieces was taken in October 1986. Mom would have been 74 that y...