Collecting My Thoughts

Tech alums are teaching at Lakeside Duke Low, class of '56, is teaching a poetry class at the Rhein Center this coming week, and my hus...

The porches of Lakeside Our neighbors enjoying their porch. This is an early 20th century 4-square. In the 19th century, this cottage had a...

3952 Saturday jobs My husband spent about 2 hours working in the yard (at the lake house) today, raking, sweeping off the roof, mowing the...

3951 Why we have minimum wage jobs A fella that helps me keep my html and css coding straight is Boogie Jack. If it's not right, don...

3950 How to kill a lobster and choose a wine glass Coffee with the Wall St. Journal is so educational. Today I learned how to make a lobs...

3949 The minimum wage increase It's a battle we never win, a battle to fight economic illiteracy among Americans, according to Governme...

3948 There's a reason for income inequality It's called a pay off for education. "In 1980, an American with a college degree ...

3947 This non-crime needs a real pardon It's been interesting to see the left go crazy over the commutation of Scooter Libby's sente...

3945 Do you wash Your hands before eating? Yes. Apples before eating? Yes, and I also scrape off the wax. Raisins before eating? Yes, remove...

3944 This 'n That 'n Those If you are a regular, you may have noticed that my e-mail address has changed to prontomail from medsca...

3943 Conservatives and Talk Radio Liberals can't walk the talk on freedom of speech. Particularly when it is talk radio. Liberals do...

Thursday Thirteen about our trip 1) Last Thursday we left Lakeside, OH for Oregon, IL around 7 a.m. arriving about 2:30 at my sister's h...

Progressive and radical librarians aren't very different from any progressive and radical fill-in-the-blank folk. They are political f...

Celebrate our Freedom and Independence! Happy July 4. I posted this photo of my neighbor and her dog last July 4, but I think it is so cu...

3939 We're back in Lakeside We had a peaceful trip back arriving about 2:30 p.m. Traffic was light and there weren't too many cons...

We're off again We're heading for Illinois to visit family (brother, sister, aunts and uncles, a few cousins, nieces and nephews) a...

3937 We're haters and xenophobes According to today's WaPo: "Under attack from talk radio, unions, xenophobes and others, the...

3936 If you're a parent of one of the 600 teenagers from the Methodist Lima District (now called something else), I must say these are ...

3935 Memorial Dinner I fixed Bob Evans bratwurst, potato salad and tossed salad with a dish of fresh blueberries/raspberries and a peanut b...

3934 No dog in this fight There's a discussion going on at BeliefNet's blog by Kuo on whether Apple users are "religious...