Collecting My Thoughts

Andrew Klavan: “As the mid-term campaign season nears its close, Americans are preparing for election day when the free people of a great na...

Not all societal change moves at the speed of the lockdown’s spiritual and moral disruptions. Some take decades. So when Charlie Ollermann s...

 Things are a bit messed up in our house as we pull things out of closets, bags and off the walls in preparation for our combined art show N...

We are protecting Ukraine's borders from foreign invaders. It's called a proxy war. Billions of dollars. But we can't (or won...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken a law hastily passed over 20 years ago after 9/11 to stop foreign terrorists (Patriot act) a...

The slaughter of Christians in Nigeria was a concern of President Trump, so Biden and Blinken had them removed from the watch list! Apparent...

Last Sunday, October 16, after church we went to the Columbus Museum of Art with our friends Howard and Betty to see "Raphael--The Powe...

 The Party's faith in Sustainability, a poem (by Norma Bruce, based on an idea in  How Sustainability is Becoming the One True Corporate...

Russian fuel for Europe is a problem, yes, but wouldn't be if the U.S. were at full production and didn't have Joe Biden and Bill Ga...

10/21/22:  The US economy was doing very well when Trump left office. We were energy independent, the stock market was still high, home pric...

I wonder how many Democrats would have voted for Joe if he'd campaigned on open borders, rising crime rates, a new war with Russia, high...

An 84 year old woman has been shot in Michigan for being a "right wing nut," but Michigan's governor is only silent. But she...

Our Sunday sermon series has been on the Covenants of the Bible, and this past Sunday Pastor Steve Turnbull preached on the story of God...

"Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education involve a range of objectionable elements, such as giving prefe...

Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democrat party. But she's not a conservative and is not joining the Republicans. However, I've added her ...

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Whether you're a lawyer, do...

Sometimes we can't know what we don't know. What happened from March 2020 through today (when I saw people still wearing masks insid...

 Although I often say I'm rarely busy, I do have a dilemma right now because I can't get done what I'm planning in my head. It...

Remember how everyone was trying to get the first dose of the vaccine? We went out in blizzards and stood in lines in February 2021. 80% of...

I got a late start in preparing for retirement. I was in my mid-40s with a full time tenure track job at Ohio State University and a put and...