Collecting My Thoughts

We heard some bad news Monday night. The Chef-o-Nette in Upper Arlington is closing! This week! When we moved here in June 1967 we rented an...

Last night my neighbor Jan asked if I had any corn starch. I did, but it was waaaay beyond shelf life, maybe 10 years or so, so she declined...

AT&T reported it was not a cyberattack last Thursday but "the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were ex...

The Antiques Roadshow appraisal at our house today is my Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary of the English Language 2nd edition Un...

Today's Antique Roadshow at our house is the dinner table set with hand painted Blue Ridge China (Mountain Ivy pattern) from the Southe...

Addictions start small. At first, I hardly noticed. One day I flipped on Roku (streaming service) to watch something while riding the exercy...

The "He gets us" ad. Such a kerfuffle. It amazes me that so much misunderstanding and suspicion can ooze from such a simple messag...

I saw an article about "food insecurity" yesterday That means that in the last 4 weeks the cook/mother/grandmother/oldest daughter...

  You might be a Christian Nationalist if: You believe in natural rights. You attend church. Possibly more than once a week. You support you...

I had printed my blog of October 17, 2022 (3 pages), and found it in a stack of papers today. I think it is a list I'd intended to check...

The latest non-crime and ridiculous "award" of nearly half a million (paid out to whom since there was no victim and no crime?) fo...

Subject: Squirrelly The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and c...

 On January 5, 2024, the OSU Libraries retirees got together for lunch at the Morgan House.  This restaurant is in Dublin, OH, north of here...

We had an interesting Sunday dinner yesterday: every item on the menu began with a "C" but I didn't realize it until today. Wh...

  The clerk said there is a tiger face on this sweater, but we had to take a photo to find it.

Seems that no one (except me) thought the Tucker/Putin interview was good. Putin and all our Leftists thought they were softball questions. ...

We finally have measurable snow. About 4.5" on our deck railing (a very scientific figure). Some of central Ohio got up to 6". I...

For many years we had a "Friday night Date" and went out to eat. About 60 years. Then came Covid. The restaurants closed, churches...

Rob Reiner, now 76, played to type in the 1970s, Meathead, a thickheaded liberal who if he didn't jump to conclusions or fall for lies, ...

This is an excerpt from an essay about a volunteer fire department with a board out of control, but it's so well written I thought I...