Collecting My Thoughts

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Sad news for Honey Dip Customers

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 My husband and his Romeo (retired old men eating out) friends have been meeting here for years. It's sad to see small businesses chased...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Ask a Librarian redux

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  I was looking for something else, but found this article in my blog about a carpet cleaner I'd written about in 2008. Turns out the m...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Memories from 1957--Grandma's fall

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 Repacking my genealogy files today, I found a 1957 letter from Leslie, my mother's brother, describing an incident I'd heard about ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

A new exercise class

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Today at the Forum I decided to try the class on chair exercises. After all, I go to the gym, so how hard could it be? Very. We were holdin...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

It's moving day

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  I haven't been wild about my "page a day" table calendar this year. I went from birds to horses. Hmm. Love horses, but bir...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Getting ready for the move

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 We are moving to a retirement community, and frankly my dear, I'm pooped.  And so is my husband. On Friday we had a quick trip by ambul...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Feeling sorry for myself until . . .

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 Downsizing isn't fun.  Everyone (almost) says so and has advice. There's a lot of sadness in going through items packed away and fo...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

A big move to a smaller space

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  We are downsizing for a move. I expected a lot of dust, mustiness, foxing, mystery computer and TV cords and clothes that will never fit a...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Blueberry pie tip

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Another cooking tip. I'd forgotten this one. My children were adults, but I still wrote an occasional "Bruce Times" to catch t...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Retirement residential check list

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I made up this checklist to use when looking at retirement apartments or assisted care facilities.  I looked at some on the internet, but li...

The Chef-o-Nette

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We took a step back in time today. The little restaurant near our former home on Abington Rd. has reopened (closed for over a year with ne...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Just looking

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This week we visited "The Forum," a retirement facility that's about 3 miles from here. I remember when it was built, about 3...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Work on that, Republicans

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I'm so tired of Republicans, conservatives, media mavens and "influencers" all twisted up in the Epstein files. You're bei...
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Setting the record straight by Jarod Lennis (Facebook)

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"Here To Set The Record Straight" So disappointed in all the lies, blaming of religion, pointing of fingers, and political agendas...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Podcasts--they must be easy to make with the right tool

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I've become a fan of podcasts, but I've got a lot to learn. I only listen, I don't create. Today I found a podcast of a publicat...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

The Epstein files--what happened to the list of clients?

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I'm not going to get in a froth about the Epstein files. When Trump stood up after being shot, he said fight, fight, fight. I don't ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Damaged brains caused by TDS

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There are lots of hoaxes and fakes on the internet these days. I just saw one of those free automobile fake offers on Facebook by just click...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

The old rugged cross--a Michigan gospel song

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The publication I use with my morning meditations is called "The Magnificat" and is Roman Catholic using a liturgical year theme. ...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

A follow up on VBS at UALC

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 This note was sent to the congregation: "In the midst of June's heat wave, UALC had the opportunity to welcome people from all acr...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Republicans want the perfect bill--there's no such thing

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Big beautiful bill. Republicans demand the perfect; Democrats demand that anything Trump must be hated.   Donald J. Trump has had the most s...
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Preferring truth to custom, the better to the good, adapt to adopt, reform to revolution, solutions to goals, knowledge to awareness, faith to spirituality. The rules.
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