I finally have to admit that I'm experiencing loneliness. For the first year and a half after Ron's death, I didn't really have...

I'm not sure why I've developed an interest in this. It seems frivolous on the one hand and important on the other. Why are some peo...

Springtime in the Ozarks weekend. We were married there and went back every year to celebrate. Last year the weekend was very hard. We looke...

If Ron were here, we would have a ceremony to mark the passing of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the strongest links in the bond between us. Both of...

Yesterday was my first visit back to physical therapy since my last visit to the orthopedist. I've been looking forward to going since ...

Sometime in April, sometime in the 70s, is the time the tornado came through southwest Missouri and killed my mother and grandmother. I can...

Another terribly sad event. I am so relieved that my grandson, Adam, is all right. I wish I had some words of wisdom to say over such a terr...

Can't live with them; can't live without them. Without my to do lists I would be totally lost in my life and would forget important ...

The Bible says that the root of all evil is the love of money, which would make greed the most dangerous of the seven deadly sins. But what...

It's time to get back to this. A posting every few months is no good. The last visit to the doctor was mostly good news. I can't j...

I'm worried. I'm a news junkie so I'm sure I didn't miss it. Why don't we know from the media what is motivating the r...

I've thought and thought about this - why is there no relationship between "cracking up" and "cracking down?" Or may...

I've spent the last couple of months thinking about what I wanted to do with this and have decided to continue with observations. I had...

For all the years of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq I've wondered and wondered why there was no news coverage of the wounded. I thought...

I heard - I'm pretty sure on the radio - that Nancy Pelosi wore a purple suit the day after elections. The speculation was that since pu...

Somewhere I heard that gas prices were going down because of the elections, and that they would go back up right after the elections. Some p...

I was prepared for everything except for the news I got after surgery. Apparently MRIs and Xrays are not all that reliable for showing what ...

It's surgery day tomorrow at 1:15. So I'm going to eat dinner very late since I won't be able to eat tomorrow. Other preparation...

I don't understand why my home computer is dysfunctional more than functional. There's probably a book somewhere called, "Comp...

I've been observing trends in language/slang for most of my life probably because my mother was an English teacher and she frequently co...