Collecting My Thoughts

Fortunately, God looks at the heart, not the results. While driving to Wal-Mart today to buy a new computer mouse, baby aspirin, Dixie cu...

4054 Poetry Thursday--a betrayal of trust Last week I took a writing class at the Rhein Center here in Lakeside with Patricia Mote . One of...

4053 Lakeside 80 years ago On my bookshelves at our summer cottage is the Lakeside on-Lake-Erie Season 1927 program . I think I bought it...

4052 Can you say No? Some people have a problem saying or hearing the word NO. I think it is the first word children say, either becaus...

4051 Remembering labor Normally, I never think about labor--not the paycheck, but the kind that has a baby at the end of the effort. You r...

4050 Memorials at Lakeside Some light the way with period sensitive street lamps, this one in remembrance of Hazel and Wendell Lutes, Sr. wh...

4049 Maybe he could take up golf Lionel Tiger is an anthropologist who sees himself as an economist when he writes for the op ed page in th...

4048 I should feel sorry for her, but I don't. She's working 80 hours a week to meet her mortgage payment, which was an ARM and sh...

Monday Memories--Is there life after high school I saw this meme over at Big Mama . She's been out of high school 18 years, so her mem...

4046 Blogging blues The laptop failed again. Very frustrating. So I'm back in the hotel lobby at the desk meant for little people, or...

4045 Ellen Goodman is just reporting what I said three years ago There is a dearth of women bloggers who discuss politics, economics, acad...

4044 Dogs on board I've seen silly things for which to criticize politicans, but these are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Did you k...

You Belong in Fall Intelligent, introspective, and quite expressive at times... You appreciate the changes in color, climate, and mood that ...

4043 Addiction in 6th graders My son began smoking in adolescence, so a recent article in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2...

4042 Let's investigate Congress and the gas tax Can you believe the liberals? Another "fund" for them to squander? The Democ...

4041 Friday Family Photo We all know who we are here--about a month ago, taken in Illinois during the 4th get together, with my brother...

4040 Napping on the floor Isn't this a great photo over at A Chelsea Morning. I don't know who Cameron is, probably a grandchild,...

4039 Classes at the Rhein Center Last night the instructors at the Rhein Center in Lakeside had a pitch-in/covered dish dinner. Families...

4038 Looking for horses Whether you enjoy medicine, images from old documents or photographs, you will lose yourself in the Wellcome Images...

4037 New legislation on adoption and foster care You probably didn't know that certain Americans have special protective laws for adop...