Collecting My Thoughts

The secret to waist management, part. 2 This theme started here . I noticed an article by that title in my new first issue of Boho , about ...

Lakeside 2008 Week 9 Civil War Week There's so much to do this week I clipped the article from the paper and attached it to the refriger...

What Governor Strickland needs to tell the Democratic National Convention about the economy I've provided an outline for him in a lett...

Lakeside 2008--a happy Lakesider! Another Lakeside artist gave my husband a gift certificate to Summer Stock, a tiny deli and "take and...

Findlay Flood This is the first anniversary of Findlay, Ohio's terrible flood of last summer. If you're not from this area, you pr...

Proposed new taxes vs the Bush tax cuts Although I agree that Obama can’t help the poor by making fewer opportunities for the rich, I’m not...

He forgot the Tafts James Taranto was commenting in his column August 19 about dynasties in American politics, beginning with some folks I‘...

Maybe we need to see the results of the $50 million? I don't think there's much to uncover here--we all know Obama has had a long ti...

Housing for NOLA with good intentions, bad design Tulane architectural students are having a design competition for new housing in New Orlea...

The Iraqi refugee problem Did you see the recent PBS show on the crisis in Syria, Jordan (and even U.S.) for Iraqi refugees? We did a lousy...

Manipulative words How the candidates did at Saddleback. It should be a news story, not a disguised editorial on page one of the Washington ...

Genealogy Class We had a wonderful, 5-day genealogy seminar at Lakeside last week. One really interesting thing I learned was about a commo...

How the carbon tax will work It’s a very old, medieval system. Al Gore and buddies will be at the top; with the rest of us taxed. It won...

Pinto Beans I enjoy black beans and black-eyed peas, but am not fond of pinto beans, that good ol boy dish from Appalachia. They even make ...

Lakeside 2008 Farmer's Market It's gray and overcast today, but the wagons are here! I spent $11.00 and got a quart of peaches, qu...

The secret to waist management, part 1 It's easy. Dive into the right gene pool! Here I am about age 18 at the senior prom wearing my ...

Many ways to be peaceful and at peace For those yearning for a false hope and nebulous change, this is from an older post of mine expressing...

Who gets the green from going green? A lot of the environmentalism information and advertising about which I comment comes not from "ri...

Black on black crime "Barack Obama likes to portray himself as a centrist politician who wants to unite the country, but occasionally h...

Monday Memories--How we saved energy in our dorm room JoElla and I told each other in elementary school that we would room together in coll...