Collecting My Thoughts

I glanced across the aisle at church today and watched a three year old in her mom's lap. She almost made it to one of our Christmas ca...

Because I used to print and bind my blog entries, it's easier to look back and read them than skimming a computer screen. I was looking ...

This is an important day. It's the penultimate day of the church calendar. (Ultimate means final or farthest and pen means almost.) So i...

Yesterday morning we got an update on our dishwasher/paper plate problem. It wouldn't be fixed in time for the big Thanksgiving Day din...

BBC – “Parasocial” is the Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, defined as a relationship felt by someone between themselves and a famo...

 . . . it didn't pass the grammar quiz.  I spent about 30 minutes with a tech support staff member at The Ohio State University yesterda...

  Cecilia Fernandes Obituary (1938-2025) | Columbus, OH We remember the kindness of the family in our time of need in 2020.

Why is everything a crisis? Like the affordability crisis? The age of first home purchase has increased to 38. We were 22 when we bought our...

Have Democrats lost their minds by circulating a ridiculous video encouraging active duty military to defy orders? Trump told his supporters...

The word "euchre" is likely not directly related to "eucharist" in terms of etymology, despite their similar spelling. T...

I have probably been in 613 Bible studies in my adult life, the number of rules/laws in the Old Testament for observant Jews. I often hear ...

Every Wednesday morning for the last 4 years I've been logging my husband into ZOOM for his men's Bible study, but I have to write d...

The Schumer Shutdown may have been paused but the Obamacare funding problem won't go away, and neither will hunger if political interest...

It looks like the Schumer Shutdown is over for now. The disastrous Obamacare increases will still need to be solved, and the payment for il...

Tonight, at the Forum (aka The Estates) we enjoyed the music of https://www.empirewild.com/ Empire Wild, 60 minutes of 2 cellos and a piani...

J. J. Slayback posted his travels in northern Illinois on Facebook, including Mt. Morris, Oregon and Byron. Here's the piece on Mt. Morr...

Tuesday was election day. Sure, you've heard a lot about Zohran Mamdani and NYC. He wasn't on your ballot, although Communism was--s...

How important is K-12 education? Very. Extremely. Critical. We've got citizens under the age of 40 who didn't live during or learn a...

Why are Obama and Politico defending or endorsing Democrat Jay Jones? Saying "sorry" just doesn't cut it when he fantasized ab...

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...