Collecting My Thoughts

Intimate Partner Violence An "intimate" in sociologist lingo is a current or former spouse, a boyfriend, or a girlfriend, same or ...

Monday Memories--Lakeside in the mid-70s We're back in Columbus this week, with a reasonably full agenda (for us) including hosting a la...

Abstinence never fails; condoms do If it weren't so tragic, it would be funny. President Bush is being blamed for a rise in teen-age pr...

Banana Republic Yesterday we had brief catch-up discussions with two different Columbus couples who had recently returned from Washington DC...

She didn't say income, she said wealth Many Americans, particularly Democrats, think that these figures of $250,000 or $350,000 for rais...

What you can expect with government health care After Obama succeeds in destroying your current health insurance plan by making it too expen...

Lakeside Cottage architecture, pt. 3 Side gable houses with shed dormer to the street, pt. 2 It's difficult to find a cottage that hasn...

No Respect for this wise Latina What's most upsetting about the Sotomayor hearings is her lying. I'd actually feel better about her ...

Arlington Cemetery grave offenses When I heard a story on the news about problems at Arlington Cemetery, I said to my husband, tongue in che...

Why they are rushing health care through "Say this about the 1,018-page health-care bill that House Democrats unveiled this week and th...

So you think you might own a Sears house? Sears sold about 75,000 pre-cut homes that would arrive in 30,000 pieces at the nearest train stat...

Lakeside Cottage architecture, pt. 2 Side gable with shed dormer to the street houses, pt. 1 Next to the farm house and two story camp cotta...

A home is not a financial investment This is one of the myths our government, regardless of party, has told us. That's how we got Fanni...

Lakeside cottage styles Walking through Lakeside since 1974, I've seen a lot of changes. For some of these changes I've held the en...

Broadcast TV searches for the new bottom We thought they couldn't debase themselves any further than the 2008 campaign, and then came th...

Today at the Rhein Center This is our watercolor class with John Behling, OWS, who also teaches in Columbus, and is retired from the Social ...

Social(ism) programs, not the economy, matter most There's an excellent explanation why the "stimulus" isn't working--it w...

Those damnable cooking and recipe sites Lady-Light posted a new blog link today on kosher cooking, but I'm not going there. Fabulous re...

Michigan needs more than a CYA speech Up here where I get different radio stations and newspapers, folks have buyer's remorse big time....

Inside story on the teleprompter failure "My White House designated operator, Felix, clearly has to go. Today, Big Guy and I were scrol...