Collecting My Thoughts

Lakeside 2008, Microblogging The term microblogging is one with which I'm not familiar, but recently learned it means blogging about th...

Even geeks can be evil Or he just has a lot of dirt on someone. “Officials have arrested a city of San Francisco IT network administrator f...

Even the media people need to keep their jobs An interesting story appeared on three national news programs Monday and Tuesday: amid all t...

Freddie, Fannie and FEMA Remind me again why we want the government to take over health insurance.

This little piggy went to market with Salmonella Pigs raised without antibiotics are more likely to carry bacteria and parasites, according...

There's a lot of green in going green It's deja vu all over again. I was working in the Agriculture Library in the late 1970s-early...

Bad taste? You bet! The recent New Yorker cover is supposed to be satire. The Obama people are offended, as well they should be, and conser...

Italy, Friday Day 3, Positano You don't know the meaning of "narrow, winding route" until you've shut your eyes tight on ...

Lakeside 2008, Week 4 week-end Wonderful things just kept coming. Beautiful weather (except for sailors on Sunday), the wooden boat show, th...

Italy, going to the dogs, cats and cows We saw scooters every where--women zipping around in high heels and mini-skirts, children, groups, a...

The cheapest car to drive is the one you own (paid for). My 2002 Dodge minivan will do just fine, thank you. Even if I were to sell it, th...

Italy, Day 7 through 11, Umbria and Orvieto, Cathedral There are probably hundreds of wonderful medium size towns where you could rent a fl...

Hospitals--don't go there My recent two day stay in a modern, metropolitan hospital, covered by my excellent insurance (although it wil...

Roving with Obama If there's anyone Dems hate more than George Bush, it's Karl Rove. But he's a good analyst. And to hear Dems...

Lakeside 2008 Plein Air Paintout This week-end, July 11-13, Lakeside hosts the artists of the Ohio Plein Air Society (in the open air). Ov...

Buy real food, instead of whining about prices Here at Lakeside I'm spreading my food dollar around. I really like walking to the Erie B...

Phil Gramm is right! We are a nation of whiners. I've got a blog--I whine all the time about the left wing media, the poverty stories a...

We'll miss you, Andy Our good friend and my husband's former partner and dearest friend died Sunday. He was born in Italy and was ...

Lakeside 2008, Presidential Elections lectures This series is being offered at 10:30 in the Green Room of the Fountain Inn by Justin Vaughn...

Italy, Friday day 10, Perugia & Assisi, after lunch As I mentioned yesterday, here at Lakeside (our summer home on Lake Erie) the stor...