Collecting My Thoughts

My cousin Gayle is such a faithful events greeter, and when the family lived in Alaska, we would be treated with colorful postcards and a pe...

Still finding letters from my mom inside the card box I'm clearing out. By this time (1998) Mom and Dad were living in a lovely retireme...

I used to joke with my mom about her crop and weather reports in her letters.  I'm sorry about that now--they are really very sweet when...

Over the week-end I finished up my massive project begun a few weeks ago--rereading all the Christmas letters I'd saved since 1987, and ...

God of our life, There are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless,...

Winds of war.  I think I know how this current situation in Syria will play out.  Big stories about WMD. Photographs of the horror.  A Repub...

Although I don't contribute to the fund raisers, it is my understanding the locals have done very well this spring. People fear loss of ...

"Origen, born into a Christian family from Alexandria Egypt around 185AD, was only a teenager when he witnessed his father, Leoni...

and it would be nice if everyone, not just babies, could have a better life. Let's hope that Neil Gorsuch can make decisions based on l...

Data from 2015, analyzed with a new methodology, show that the incidence of primary and secondary syphilis among Men who have sex with men...

Retired Old Men Eating Out. My husband ate breakfast, lunch and dinner out today, and will have lunch and dinner out tomorrow.

Exactly.  She'd have to have only millennials with identical college degrees and identical experience for women to earn the same or more...

I know this question “why” is rhetorical and we understand why the reporter and other anti-Trumpsters think it’s worthy of discussion. The...

With cake and extra 25 pounds

 I know a few "super agers" over 90, and although I can't comment on their exercise habits, I do know they maintain an active ...

This is somewhat simplified because the blog is written for parents and children to discuss together (questions at the end of the text). ...

Full Question I am Catholic. A Protestant told me that the people are the church, but I’m pretty sure that is not true. Can you help me...

The pre-Christmas holiday in 1995 was wonderful at my sister-in-law Jean's home in Indianapolis.  Even Bob's brother Jimmy DeMott wa...

Cinderella is now 95 years old. After a fulfilling life with the now dead prince, she happily sits upon her rocking chair, watching the wor...

Almost 50 years ago Dr. Robert Butler, a gerontologist, coined the word "ageism." I was in my 20s then and probably laughed at th...