As always, I've collected tidbits of interest over the week and find my desk cluttered with things I've been wanting to share with you.

I'll start with Disney, and the new website they're starting up.

Unlike their entertainment sites with games and toys and such, this one is touted to be a, "one-stop site for parents, especially mothers, providing everything from Internet search to user-generated articles on key topics such as education and food, and, eventually, a "ParentPedia," a compilation of information on 1,000 topics that can be expanded by users."

Sounds very handy. It will be up in testing stages until summer, but should then be fully functional. There will be ads, as Disney does nothing without money as a goal, but that's a fair enough trade.

If anyone cares ... and no one should, but things don't work that way ... here's an article that lists celeb adoptive parents and a paragraph or so on each. Notice how there are really very few, and that they've been going on for a while. This is not new, nor is it any sweeping phenomenon.

For you singles out there, here's an article about getting back into the dating scene after a while out of that loop. All in all, it sounds like there's no good reason to be sitting home on a Saturday night unless you want to.

Not only are we bolder, there's plenty of evidence that we're better at dating than younger people. "The one thing that our research continually shows is that the older a person gets, the more he or she becomes a practical dater, as opposed to being emotionally driven," says Trish McDermott, vice president of romance (now there's a title!) for Match.com. Single Americans over 55 are the group least likely to believe their romantic lives are controlled by destiny, she says, or that they have only one soul mate. Some are also optimistic; more than one in five believe they will find romance this year.

For a look at older adoptions from another angle, this takes a look at people who don't get around to it until their 40s ... and those are the adoptees!

Yes, adopting adults in the news ... the good, the bad, and the greedy. Read all about it.

And I am compelled by an ingrained naughty streak to end with this story from Germany that has nothing to do with any of us here ... I hope:

A 91-year-old German man was rescued Tuesday from a sticky
situation.

The retiree from the eastern city of Magdeburg had been taking advantage of good spring weather to re-tar the roof of his garden house when he slipped and became glued to the structure himself.

Rescuers were able to free the man, whose name was not released, by prying him loose -- bit by bit -- from the gooey mess.

Authorities said the man wasn't hurt, but his clothes were a
write-off.

Funny about this one ... Mark sees the old geezer as determined. I'm
guessing stubborn, cheap, or both.