Collecting My Thoughts

This study will explain how the health policy changes President Obama and Congressional Democrats support would cause millions of Americans ...

I don't know who Pat Toomey is, or if he's a good man, but this assessment of what's happening in Pennsylvania from the WSJ (...

And many who were, are recovering their sanity and common sense. "What if the first African-American president isn’t? Doesn’t that chan...

For years our huge, evangelical congregation in suburban Columbus with 3 locations and 9 services on Sunday and many ministries has been tol...

First, this issue isn't about the uninsured, nor the cost of health care. That's scare tactics. This is a power grab full of lies a...

I had noticed this back in the 1990s when I was writing my own articles and/or helping professors do their research. On-line didn’t mean be...

This morning we're taking our house guests to the Patio Restaurants for pancakes. They love those, and it's this food critic's ...

After a visit to the Marblehead lighthouse and lunch today, my husband will drive our young friends back to Kent and their host families. M...

"At a time when both Congress and state legislatures are considering health care reform, it's very important to recognize that gove...

This was after he didn’t actually say what he would have done if told his Grandmother couldn’t have a hip replacement when she was terminall...

Every envelope I get from the Alumni Association or Foundation of the University of Illinois is returned with a note, "Not as long as y...

My husband called yesterday to let me know we'd be having two guests for three days, two young men he met when he was teaching architect...

If the green-goes would set a good example, maybe picking up trash 10 minutes a day instead of flying across the globe to attend meetings, t...

Neo-Neocon says it best : ". . . it appears to be dawning on an increasing number of Americans that President Obama cannot be trusted....

This is part 2 of a guest blog written by Joan Barris of Lakeside. Here's the first part. For years I battled neck pain, sinus congestio...

This morning on my walk along the lakefront at sunrise, I stopped at a memorial tree, about 15 ft tall, dedicated to a young man who had die...

By Joan Burris, owner Idlewyld B&B, Lakeside, Ohio When Norma Bruce asked if I would like to write a guest blog about my holistic journe...

This is a viral e-mail, if that makes you toss it, so be it. I won't even try to track it down, because the numbers make some sense, an...

Christians fight about almost everything--baptism, end times, Bible translations, role of women in the church, clothing (is a zipper more wo...

Each week in the Lakesider (our weekly newspaper) there's a notice about smoking in "public areas." By next summer you won...