Collecting My Thoughts

              I'm painfully trying to consolidate and sort through computer files moving from Works to Word. This photo didn't make ...

This blog is from a January 1989 letter: I've been using my New Year's resolution and my Prevention newsletter to do walking again....

 Melanie Novak blog on old films.  We've seen some of these at The Estates. I've starred them. The Affairs of Susan (1945) After the...

Mamdani and fellow travelers are picking off Democrats, so why continue to call them "Democratic Socialists." They are Communists...

On June 17 President Trump had dinner with President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles. Democrats probably would have preferred a ...

Recently I was researching a topic in Isaiah 35 and came across a sermon from The Church at Station Hill, so I looked up the pastor and chur...

I've read a few reports of the recent "alleged" drones with bombs attack on the crowds in DC and the WH. I conclude you can...

So, what are we to make of this? Will the Democrats cheer? They defend the leftists when they try to kill Trump, but if this had been succe...

This morning I noticed something colorful on the kitchen shelf--in the cookie jar, which is not used for cookies but which I keep as a souve...

While Romans 3:9–20 is not a standalone hymn, it is a foundational text in Christian worship. It is read in liturgies, preached upon, and of...

June 8th, 2025, I stood in the ocean (purposely waited for an ocean baptism as it’s always been my connection to God since I began surfing b...

  Last week's trip by Estates residents to Columbus metro park Blacklick Woods was cancelled due to bad storms, but our hardy group had ...

Sharing time. It's Sunday, June 7, and this item is related to that. I often hear OBLATION and ABLATION mixed up/confused. An OBLATION i...

I heard yet another story on Spectrum this morning (local news) about the central Ohio small towns concerned about AI data centers. Hearings...

Last night I looked through ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME ...

Why have no U.S. refineries been built in 50 years? Certainly, it's not Trump's fault. The short answer is extremists attached to th...

I enjoy reading "Meditations in the Book of Psalms" by Erling C. Olsen. He had a Sunday afternoon radio broadcast in the 1930s, la...

  Roughly 138-147 million people live within 500 miles of Columbus. A 500‑mile radius from Columbus, Ohio covers a vast area — roughly 1.2 m...

  It's Memorial Day week-end and many of us here at the Estates (and here on FB) remember when it was Decoration Day because it first me...

We don't have church newsletter/bulletins (a Covid casualty?) anymore, but for special occasions we do have handouts on Sunday--and yes...