Collecting My Thoughts

Although the editor makes a bit of fun with this, I always enjoy keeping up with the library stuff with "Current Cites." Just one ...

What if the environmentalists, greenies, sustainable eaters and tree-huggers got serious about "made in the USA" while they are sa...

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) periodically has a topic specific issue, and July 21, Vol. 304, no.3, was on HIV/AIDS. No...

We got this from AIA today--just one of the many sneaky increases all businesses and private individuals will be getting in 2011 and 2012. T...

If you are visiting northwestern Ohio (or Lakeside) and would like to take a side trip, don't miss Schedel Arboretum and Gardens in Elmo...

There are many sculptures in the Schedel gardens that are part of the permanent collection, but many others by various artists are for sale....

If you need a BIG place for a reunion or a church group, this would be the place. Today at lunch I sat with the owner. I was so impressed ...

At our summer home on Lake Erie in Lakeside, Ohio, we wash and dry the dishes together. At home we have a dishwasher. This is such a pleas...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not a Christian, but in her new book about adjusting to life in America, Nomad, she writes: Christian leaders now wasting...

The Obama crowd wasn't cowering before anyone--certainly not Fox News which didn't break the story. Certainly not Glenn Beck who de...

The one on the left is the new one--designed by Legacy Publishing Group, Carol Rowan artist. The used up one is called Pattern Play, design...

That's going to be hard to do--separate fact from fiction--because the editor of PolitiFact is an editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer ...

Apparently, looking at the Sherrod speech in its entirety, she called pretty much everyone who doesn't agree with Obama a racist. Those ...

The hasty firing of Shirley Sherrod shows the WH can move quickly when it wants to.

Blogger has changed its design template and Cutest Blog on the Block has apparently discontinued the skin that I loved. Sigh. Then nothing ...

On Sunday I got some wonderful deals at a yard sale one street over:  a first issue (v. 1, n.1) of National Geographic Traveler (1984), a ni...

One of the things that Jill Taylor suggests in her book "My stroke of insight" is that we pause and become more aware of and enjoy...

Nothing's ever simple or as it seems, is it? There's apparently a lot more about Shirley Sherrod and the USDA that we didn't kn...

It has been a delight to have Bill Thompson III ( Bird Watcher's Digest ) and wife Julie Zickefoose, artist, writer and naturalist, her...

Sara Spitz's apology about wishing to watch Rush Limbaugh die with his eyes bugging out wasn't an apology at all. She's sorry sh...