Collecting My Thoughts

Lady, you don't need us, you need a miracle He says he really told her that, but I'm sure he didn't, otherwise she'd report ...

If only this could happen in restaurants Cell phone karma HT Bob C.

Off shore drilling ban lifted on July 14, 2008 and prices immediately began to plummet. I'm not sure even one drop has resulted from t...

A most awkward acronym Acronyms are wonderful--whole committees can spend time designing them, others are delightfully accidental. Whether t...

Why George Bush isn't a fiscal conservative The man spends like a Democrat. And they didn't even like him for it. A huge number of t...

Change we can count on I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm feeling much better about Obama's change these days. All tho...

Green jobs My husband's architecture newsletters (via e-mail so they come to me) are so covered with ga-ga-green, I'm surprised they...

Dear University of Illinois Alumni Association Sara Greenstein Vice President and Associate Chancellor, Alumni Relations sarag@illinois.edu ...

Guys and dolls--paper that is Collecting paper dolls is not something I do, but because I have scanned a few, my site meter shows that some...

Will tax relief programs be eliminated under Obama? Just about 2 years ago, December 20, 2006, President Bush signed the " Tax Relief a...

Lottie Moon, Missionary to China The International Mission Board has announced that the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal for 2008 is $17...

How are these pirates different than our Congress which has been holding the US taxpayer hostage through their own failures to control thei...

The Thrifty Food Plan The Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans each represent a nutritious diet at a different cost. Th...

Why there were more hungry children in 2007 Hunger will never go away in the USA because the government keeps redefining and refining what t...

How Atheists and Agnostics voted According to the George Barna poll : "The second largest faith group in America, trailing only the Chr...

Does Retirement Kill You? No. Didn't think so. All the retirees I know are too busy to die. Now, retirement accounts. That's anothe...

California fires Today's WSJ included a story about a 1930s 2-bedroom home at 486 Conejo Road that had survived the Sycamore Canyon fire...

Colored people That was an OK, acceptable term when I was young. Versions of it still are. I frequently see terms like "people of col...

Led by Faith Immaculee Ilbagiza has an amazing story. I've been watching her today on book TV. Her website. Her story of neighbor kill...

The Hoover-Roosevelt Redux As I watch George Bush swing helplessly in the wind, abandoned by both his party and common sense, unable to con...