Collecting My Thoughts

The Obamas and po' folk What is it with Michelle and Barry? Are they just big city slickers who are clueless about how to talk to down...

Whole Foods has a word or two for you Janeen alerted me to this-- Whole Foods website has pod cast/ MP3 audio on a healthy body for you. ...

How to meet a woman is the title of an entry at my church blog. It's not what it sounds like.

A new poem A poem came to me this morning before I even turned on the computer. I grabbed a notebook and sat down in a chair in the living ...

Preparations for Spring You're probably thinking that I couldn't possibly have time to spruce up the house for Spring, what with ke...

Al, Bill, Ted and Jimmy's most excellent adventure “A cloud of sulfur dioxide gas and ash rises from a crater in Hawaii Volcanoes Nati...

Taking a breather I've just been stumbling my way through the ELCA Task Force on Sexuality draft statement. We were told that this re...

In Sickness and in Wealth is sickening This week the OSU College of Public Health presents as part of Public Health Week socio-economic mar...

Delinquencies compared to 30 years ago Ah, the 1970s. When we read about the economic bad news today we don't hear much about the bust ...

Is this just 2004 again? During the election of 2004 we were constantly being hammered by the press and the Democratic candidates (sorry to...

The Big Me Tonight we're having a congregational meeting This blog entry has been moved to my church blog.

Tax strategies for boomer retirees Make sure the Bush tax cuts are kept. They are due to expire, and Miz 109 million Hillary wants to rais...

4758 Preventing Childhood Head Injuries April is Prevent Child Abuse month, but children are injured every day in non-abuse situations that ...

Why Johnny can't do math The politics of multiculturalism "To determine just how unbalanced teacher preparation is at ed schools, ...

The Reckless bad boys of Columbus The project was intended to construct a model program to divert young boys from crime by developing their...

The Canada Geese and I were puzzled by all the sparkly, twirly blue things in the park near the Church at Mill Run this morning. The first t...

Could it be our choices? Would more government regulation of the fast food industry really protect Americans from obesity, which is now a...

Vespers, prayer and bratwurst Until Molly Ziegler in WSJ covered the problems concerning a radio show cancelation at the LC-MS owned statio...

Hillary H. Hoover I'd planned to write an entry that the economic solutions that Miz Hillary is recommending were what President Herber...

Stuckert on race I watched a program the other day where the topic, "What is race," was presented to teenagers. One question the...