Collecting My Thoughts

Your heart beats 100,000 times a day — that's roughly 35 million beats per year and 2.5 billion beats over the course of life. With each...

 Bob will have enjoyment for many evenings with his stash of Christmas reading.  10 Louise Penny and 5 Susan Elia MacNeal.

Our senior pastor at UALC, Steve Turnbull, has to give 7 sermons today, Christmas Eve.  This year an 11 a.m. service was added so that the p...

 Is doesn't look like I'll be getting out my Christmas letter until maybe Valentine's day, but I found an old, old one from Dece...

  The new study, published in the  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity , found that, on average, people aged...

 Critics of the health insurance industry needs to be looking at Barack Obama and Obamacare, not at company CEOs. And those idiots idolizing...

A lot has changed since Trump won in 2016. He knew the deep state was a problem, but only now sees how deep and murky politics really is. He...

I won't exactly be making medical history, but I might be moving quickly ahead of my dad and siblings, all of whom had/have a convention...

 A non-religious evolutionary biologist is stumped about human dignity.  Only religion explains it. https://youtu.be/gwQHLHNsKvw?si=4NEjlCLC...

"Don’t expect to get any customer service from the IRS. Only two of the 76 local IRS offices picked up their phones to answer questions...

Although I haven't read it yet, First Things has an article "How Trump won over women voters."   How Trump Won Over Women Vo...

 My cardiologist's staff has contacted me about having a leadless pacemaker after getting some results on November 20 from the heart mon...

Advent Sunday by Christina Georgina Rossetti Behold, the Bridegroom cometh: go ye out With lighted lamps and garlands round about To meet Hi...

I've watched 3 weeks of Democrats pointing fingers, and they just can't figure it out, was it racist white males, or disillusioned m...

 Our small group from UALC (our church) is sharing leadership for our meetings on Zoom and I plan to offer a discussion on hymns as we enter...

"God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into...

Message from UALC: We pray for each shoebox that will be brought to Mill Run this week, from our church and other churches in the area. We ...

The same people who didn't care about   300,000 children missing in the U.S. and possibly trafficked because of Biden's policies,   ...

  RFK Jr can't do it all alone. MAHA can do some things, but it's up to us to exercise, eat fewer calories, drink less and stop smo...

I asked Google(?) who changed the original meaning of Title IX.   Sen. Birch Bayh wrote the original 37 words to insert in an education bill...