Collecting My Thoughts

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Heart healthy diet, sodium and potassium

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 Now that we are watching sodium for Bob's congestive heart failure I did an AI search on sodium and potassium, "Balance sodium and...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The Minnesota Mobs

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Every time I hear or watch an account of the Minnesota mobs I wonder if they care that much about our homegrown criminals. . . you know, the...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Patti Foley of Toledo, obituary

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  https://www.coylefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Patricia-Foley-8/?   We came to know the Foleys in the 1990s when they hired Bob to be their a...

Ohio is buried in 11" of snow and other problems

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 Our car is immobilized for a while. Churches and schools were closed by the latest storm that has swept across the nation, and particularly...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Get rid of your personal information on Google

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 “If bad actors get their hands on your personally identifiable information (PII), they can use it to swindle, impersonate, or even endanger...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Benefits of local honey

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Never a dull moment at The Estates.  I couldn't get the jar of our homegrown (Upper Arlington, Ohio) honey open this morning to make my ...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Sainte Chapelle in Paris

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  Visiting Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: What to Know Before You Go - City Or City   A story of this chapel was included in my reading this morn...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Finding a service opportunity

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Don't ask God if you don't want an answer. Like in 5 minutes. After my devotions Sunday morning I reread a post Christmas letter fr...

The mess in Minneapolis

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With the help of Hakeem Jeffries ["We must reform our broken immigration system and create a pathway toward citizenship for the million...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Food costs--eggs and walnuts

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Remember about 2 weeks after Trump took office and the price of eggs (about $5 a dozen) was beginning to fall, Democrats complained he hadn...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Diane's question about Presidents Obama and Trump

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"Here's a question for all of my Democrat/liberal friends who are decrying the US capture of Maduro in Venezuela. What’s the differ...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Did Santa bring you any good books?

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Did you get any books for Christmas? I got one--an ESV archeology Bible. My NIV was lost in the move, so rather than fret every day I just ...

Mamdani tries to make NYC Venezuela

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Not my words, but exactly my thoughts from the newsletter of investment advisor Joel Ross: "Mamdani has only been in office a few days ...

This corruption didn't begin with the Somalis

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Before tracking down "root causes" and supply chain history of the Somali day care fraud, I hope Congress stops and looks at two b...
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Sunday, January 04, 2026

Epiphany, January 4

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I remember when I first learned about Marco Polo, the 13th century Venetian diplomat who lived in China as a young man. I was about 10 years...
Thursday, January 01, 2026

Ending the old, beginning the new--while sick

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 We had plans to go to a friends' home for dinner last night (prime rib and the trimmings) but Saturday I felt a cold coming on and by W...

The $9 billion fraud in Minnesota "for the children"

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I've heard but not researched that some MSM are complaining that MAGA type citizens are overly concerned about $9 Billion fraud in child...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Hey, that's Bill Maher

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 Bob has taken to watching old reruns of the TV series, "Murder She Wrote," and today I looked up from my blogging and said, ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Is it affordability or the economy?

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Steven Moore said on Fox News the U.S. has 4% of the world's population and 1/2 of the wealth. So, I looked that up (separate sites) and...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Why is there a Bye Week?

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I hear a lot about bye/buy/by week in football chatter. So today I asked the coach at our breakfast table. And he explained it, but I wanted...
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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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