Collecting My Thoughts

A new look for the porch. We bought our summer home in Lakeside, Ohio,  in 1988 (actual house with plaster walls, basement and fireplace bui...

What could possibly go wrong? Mueller is best friends with Comey; has hired all Hillary supporting lawyers for the investigation; impaneled...

  The original link is broken, but I found this gross, disgusting detail at LiveScience about what's going on in our mattresses. "A...

“Journalists in the United States face hostility from local and federal governments, along with a number of legal threats to themselves and ...

I met this young woman on Facebook, don’t remember exactly how, but I’ve enjoyed her posts over the years.  I’ve also seen photos of her bea...

Is this scientific study unfair to transwomen? Healthy heterosexual men and women were used in the study. "We investigated how 400 diff...

Benefits of summer squash such as zucchini--World's healthiest Foods newsletter "Although summer squash has long been recognized ...

In yesterday’s seminar on bioethics at Lakeside we heard about CRISPR and growing human ears on the flesh of lab animals, and the trans-huma...

Gorsuch. Trump's #1 accomplishment. "Gorsuch, in fact, may settle to the right of Scalia. In each of the 15 cases he’s weighed in ...

It is estimated that 0.3% of all American adults are transgender, but there is no agreement or definition on what that is or how you get the...

I attended a wildlife talk at Lakeside today (huge crowd). I left when the speaker got to the creepy crawler part. But the kids love that s...

This is from the Facebook page of Dr. Jennifer Krawsczyn.  I don't know if she copied it from another source.  A few of the items were w...

Anyone can change.  Why not just be honest about your past in slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, civil rights, woman's rights? The DNC may be incap...

I've been blamed for the 18th c. slave trade, for the KKK, for Jim Crow, for segregated schools, for income gaps, for health outcomes fr...

The Census report of September 2016 has some interesting findings:  working decreases poverty! Jobs increase household income! Crazy as it m...

Joy and good relationships are nice, but studies also show personality traits, and even political preferences, are also genetic. This is tru...

A recent article in JAMA says weight gain, even in small increments, before age 55 can make you susceptible to chronic diseases, but then a ...

Diane McDermott writes at Facebook:  "Currently you can't JOIN the military if you have any medical conditions that require constan...

What if the soldier believes she is NOT a woman, but just a man with large breasts and female genitalia, a man who has menstrual cycles and ...

On Wednesday morning the ladies of the herb group met at the train station and carpooled to the Mulberry Creek Herb Farm on Bogart Road and ...