Collecting My Thoughts

Thursday, October 30, 2025

E. T. phone home

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Tonight's movie, E. T., was originally going to be outside--sort of a Halloween treat--but it was too cold and rainy. So, we gathered i...

A (too) sweet breakfast

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Bob and I both had oats for breakfast. I had a bowl of Kellogg's low fat granola with raisins, and he had oatmeal with a few raisins mad...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Julia Danison, founding member of UALC

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We sat behind Julia for many years in the early service at UALC.  Also we used to see her in Lakeside where she and some lady friends would ...

My new church lady dress

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PRODUCT DETAILS: Light, breathable chiffon Ruffled mandarin collar with picot edge Keyhole neckline with self-covered button and elastic loo...

Fried Green Tomatoes redux

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The film at The Estates (formerly the Forum) on Sunday was Fried Green Tomatoes, a very popular 1992 retelling of Fannie Flagg's best se...
Friday, October 24, 2025

The White House Ballroom

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" . . . But the biggest White House remodel to date started in the 1940s. That's when President Harry S. Truman fully gutted and re...

Market Outlook, October 2025

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 From our broker's report. "U.S. stocks extended their rally into the third quarter, led by strong recoveries in technology, consum...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Last night the movie at the Estates (formerly The Forum) was The Wizard of Oz. I had a front row seat in our community living room (the couc...

Our trip to Rock Mill

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Yesterday about 12 hardy residents (it was cold and windy) went to Fairfield County, Ohio, to see Rock Mill, part of the county park system...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

IVF and ART

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"As Ari Schulman, editor of the New Atlantis, noted on X, “Cancer screening prevents disease by helping the patient live. Embryo screen...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Thomas Sowell, American thinker and hero

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  I watch Sowell videos whenever I can. At 94 he makes far more sense than most American "thinkers", academics and former Marxists...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Brunch with the Bible study group

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This morning our Bible study group gathered at Sunny Street Cafe on Reed Rd (breakfast and brunch only). Madelaine and I exited our cars at ...
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Yes, we have no bananas

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At the Estates (formerly The Forum) we have a continental breakfast, which can be a variety of items, and always bananas. But not today . . ...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

Fear of Covid is alive and well, except among politicians

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Fear of Covid still lives. I have friends and relatives still getting the shot. Plus, many younger parents have developed a fear of useful, ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Carol J. Steele, a long time neighbor and friend

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We bought our Lakeside cottage in 1988 and met our wonderful neighbors, the Steeles. We also knew their parents, their children, and their g...
Monday, October 13, 2025

The Associated Press and the President

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As I've mentioned before we have a small digital news alert from AP on our elevator TV (about the size of a 1949 TV screen). Probably th...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Happy birthdays, anniversaries 2025

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After being delayed by colds, we finally got to celebrate two birthdays and two anniversaries at Hyde Park Restaurant.  Upper Arlington | Ho...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

A day with the horses

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One of the biggest sports events in Columbus is the Quarter Horse Congress. It's about a month long in September and October--attracting...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Rate of falls in elderly increases

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This is odd. Falls are a big risk for people my age--that's not news. But I wonder why the rate is so much higher now than when my gran...
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Sunday, October 05, 2025

Dick Durbin, pro-choice Catholic Senator

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Dick Durbin, Catholic Democrat, is not just pro-choice, he's super charged with killing the unborn. The pope knows that, knows he violat...
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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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