Collecting My Thoughts

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Historic site for United Methodists

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Sunday at 3 p.m. I walked two blocks to a ceremony to unveil a plaque commemorating Lakeside as an official Historic Site of The United Meth...
Monday, September 03, 2018

Signage battle in paradise

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This summer rainbow colored signs have appeared in the tiny yards of some Lakeside cottages--I call them "virtue signaling" and th...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

Adrienne Ross, guest blogger, don’t bring shame to my memory

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“I'm glad I didn't spend one minute watching funerals the past few days. Didn't tune in to a lick of them. And from what I...

I’m not the only one who collects thoughts

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Saturday, September 01, 2018

Winding down the 2018 season

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Seventy days certainly goes by quickly.  We’re into Labor Day week-end and the place has come to life.  It was so quiet without children. ...

On John McCain

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John McCain was an adoptive parent. He adopted his first wife's sons, and he and his second wife adopted, Bridget from a Catholic orphan...
Friday, August 31, 2018

The need for affordable housing in Columbus, Ohio

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I just read yet another article in Columbus Business First “Stop being scared of people who need affordable housing”  on the need for low in...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

A friend accused Trump of showing tendencies to be a dictator. My response

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Can you be specific? He doesn’t even have control of the Executive Branch, over which he’s supposed to reign! Supreme Court appointee...

How to read the new nutrition label

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This is the final week of programming at Lakeside, and the director of education uses our own Lakeside "experts" who present fin...

Why would we change the Ohio Constitution to improve drug sentencing and treatment?

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The 2018 Ohio Neighborhood Safety, Drug Treatment, and Rehabilitation Amendment is a ballot initiative aiming to change Ohio’s constitution...
Monday, August 27, 2018

I stepped on the scale today

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It's adding up. Patio donuts—cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla are my favs; peanut butter on toast; cheese on crackers; honey on biscuits; fr...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

President Drake of OSU needs to step up

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“According to the 23-page report, (see page 17, Section IV, B4, B5) Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith were not negligent in the overrid...

Looking for jewelry at sales

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For years I've been looking for a black and white or just black necklace. I rarely wear jewelry. I discovered that coral, teal and off w...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Porch stories at Lakeside 2018

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There’s a 20 year old movement of communities and neighbors getting together to tell stories.  The book, The Moth , has become very popular ...

Michael Smith, guest blogger, on truth, facts, conspiracy theories and bias in politics

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Interesting isn't it? How many people: - Who can't stand the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones but believe the Steele dossier is r...

Guest blogger David on the Urban Meyer/Zack Smith domestic violence case

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For non-Columbus, non-OSU Buckeyes catch up—the well-loved football coach Urban Meyer was suspended for not stepping into the marital mess o...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

How to trace an e-mail address

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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-trace-your-emails-back-to-the-source/ “The first thing you do when you hear that email notification i...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

The NFL protests—a big yawn

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The original NFL  protest by trouble maker Colin Kaeppernick (who has 3 white parents and a white Muslim girlfriend) was about police violen...
Monday, August 20, 2018

“We are still here” The French culture in Illinois and Missouri—Sunday’s program

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Instead of meeting in Hoover Auditorium at 8:15, the Sunday evening program is at 6 p.m. in the Steele Memorial in Central Park along the la...

Daddies and babies

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I love seeing the daddies and grandpas pushing the baby strollers in the dawn's early light at Lakeside. Someone drew the short straw wh...
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Preferring truth to custom, the better to the good, adapt to adopt, reform to revolution, solutions to goals, knowledge to awareness, faith to spirituality. The rules.
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