Collecting My Thoughts

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named the 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19, 2005, at the age of 78, and chose the name o...

So Barbara Walters has died at 93. She was famous for being a first, a pioneer, and for her interviewing skills--she let the famous people t...

This morning I was listening again to the various versions of The Blessing, when hundreds of Christian groups came together during the 2020 ...

My New Year's resolutions are usually for one month--then I'm on to something else--perhaps it will be poetry? I may try to do Fly L...

 https://youtu.be/w3MPnBpfrRk Also,  Dr. Peter McCullough Interviews Dr. Aseem Malhotra (substack.com) My interview with United Kingdom card...

In many states, it pays not to be employed, so if you're trying to run a business and serve the public, the government is working agains...

I've never made it a priority, but I thought it would be nice to know more about birds. God must have had such fun designing them. My fe...

Sam Bankman-Fried who perpetrated the largest fraud in U.S. history is out of jail and free, living at his parents' home (Mommy is a lef...

I've been listening to the year's end wrap ups of the 2022 news cycle. Makes me wish for the slap heard round the world. All our new...

 I'm serving Christmas dinner tonight--Christmas Eve.  Then tomorrow we'll have left overs.  That works out well because Christmas i...

My table is all set for Christmas--with reminders of those not here. I'm using Phil's Christmas table cloth, my sister Carol's p...

I've now received three warnings about the coming storm--Ohio State, Spectrum (cable/wi fi provider) and AEP (electricity). Add to that...

"Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Shows Users Want Him to Step Down as CEO" (WSJ)   This shouldn't be shocking. Conservative voices w...

Odd isn't it. Democrats get all exorcised if someone performs in black face or wears a colonialist costume and carries a "Don't...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused lifting Title 42 immigration restrictions while the high court considers a Repub...

Today is Sunday and we're making arrangements to be with Phil later (had brain surgery on Tuesday). Funny flashbacks to the 1970s. Raisi...

 https://youtu.be/A134hShx_gw I used to have a lot of respect for "scientists." They were the real deal. I was an Agriculture lib...

While the media mavens wring their hands about being blocked from Twitter for doxxing (they never worried about a president being blocked), ...

Very few churches turned down the PPP money, but they sure shut their doors and service obligations when the state said tattoo parlors and b...

I just read that Rodney Stark died this past summer at 88. I don't have many favorite authors (because I usually don't remember name...