Collecting My Thoughts

I did not know this lovely, 100-year old woman, but noticed this in her obituary, and thought it worth sharing: "In lieu of flowers, th...

The Pew Research Center found that 2019 will be the first year in which women will comprise the majority of the college-educated labor force...

This week at Lakeside we have a foreign film series, but these are all in English and two are about international adoptions, Philomena (Brit...

The Labor Day fireworks will be on Saturday, so we won’t miss them, since we’re usually not here on Labor Day.  There are lots of social act...

Sunday, August 25, was the 85th anniversary of my parents’ wedding. They died in 2000 and 2002, having celebrated together 65 years during t...

The guest pastor this morning quoted Mother Teresa on loneliness being the worst kind of poverty, but when I checked I think he must have pa...

"We won't beat Trump by blaming others and boasting about our own supposed virtue." "We liberals need self-criticism,...

Friday is a light day for programming at Lakeside; we had a class on organization (clutter) and cooking tips by Stacy Maple, a chef, on alte...

https://youtu.be/H69oPSYABDA This is a lovely video made by a couple who have an RV channel on YouTube.  They did a great story about Lake...

PIERS MORGAN: "Populism is rising because liberals have become unbearable. In my core, I'm probably more liberal than not although ...

Happy Birthday, Stan. 78. Beth Sibbring photo     

Before starting on Week 10, first I have to say good-bye to Week 9.  Wonderful closing performance of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra on Fri...

Democrat media are trying to portray Steve King's comment on family trees as excusing rape and incest. Not at all. It's just a fact....

“Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) likes to talk a lot about an affordability crisis in higher education. Fortunately for Ms. Warren and her...

White liberal academics can earn more in a day lecturing about their own “white privilege” than the median black household makes in three mo...

Understanding abortive contraception From the beginning, hormonal birth control was based on deception. Hormonal birth control (the Pill,...

Universal Studios developed a film showing "elites" killing "deplorables." Hmm. Not surprising that the people who think...

"Conservatives have been saying for years that our inner cities are laboratories where the far-left experiments with policies based on ...

A lovely church service on the lakefront, with breakfast at the Patio Restaurant.  Two friends, Mary Shesky and Carol Anderson, from our Chu...

The El Paso shooter had many concerns, most aligned with liberal and environmental policies and things promoted by the media, both social an...