Collecting My Thoughts

Our Ireland Trip from K - M Kilkenny Walking tour : Our guide had wonderful tales and insights as he led us on a walking tour after lunch o...

Our Ireland trip from H-J Hotels: In Ennis (County Clare) we stayed in the Old Ground Hotel September 9-13, some of it dating to the 18th ...

Our Ireland trip from D-G Dun Aengus: A ruined cliff-side fortress on Inishmore, an Aran island, which we viewed on Wednesday with a hef...

Our Ireland trip from A to C ABC: What our bus driver called many of the ruins--"another bloody castle." They really are everywhe...

4121 We're back from Ireland In Ireland green I caught the grippe while touring onboard a famine ship. In Waterford it was crystal clea...

Posting from Ennis, Ireland We're having a great time--now visiting the DeValera library which is inside an old church ruins (Presbyteri...

We're off to Ireland Although I had access to a computer when we were in Finland last year, I don't expect to be blogging from Irela...

Thursday Thirteen--13 communication tips for fathers In today's Wall Street Journal a father of 3 writes to Sue Shellenbarger's co...

4118 What happened to drowning worms? Health and sex education for young people in the 1950s ended with high school--and about all I can re...

4117 Hillary's math She likes to point out she has more experience than Obama. "I don’t think, based on my 35 years in fighting f...

4116 Edwards on health care James Taranto at Best of the Web wonders about this story : ". . . liberals, who these days are more or l...

Monday Memories--from Nigeria and Iowa This holiday week-end four of my third cousins are gathering to honor their parents 90th and 91st b...

4114 Why the Democrats have become the party of wealth Actually, I don't know the answer to this. Guilt? Boredom? Easy to sell their v...

4113 The UA Labor Day Art Show The Upper Arlington art show must be one of the largest and warmest, one day shows in the Columbus metropoli...

Update on my walking goal I really hate setting goals. Walking 2.5 miles a day for 100 days should not have been all that hard, but I onl...