Columns

REMEMBER LABOR DAYI should have written this column last week but I’m several days late and a few dollars short in writing about Labor Day..Labor Day is a three day holiday. The official end of summer. Aday for picnics and excursions to the lake.

Some tips help beat the heat Maybe it’s because we have had a little hot weather or maybe it’s just that time of the year. It couldn’t possibly be that some of us are getting a little older.

Jessie Anderson Chase’s Short Story, ‘The Old Things’ People who have lived a long and frui_ul life have much to give to the younger genera_on.As time passes, youth turns to old age in the cycle of life. Often, the young don’t appreciate what’s come before them.

The Big Tornado Night in Stonewall. It was what we would call a “sultry” night in Stonewall, Oklahoma, in 1947. I was 12 and I had a less than lucrative job running the popcorn stand at the Main Theatre there on Stonewell’s Main Street.I was glad to be there.

Segregation in OklahomaSegregation means “to separate.” In the southern US in the 1880s and 1890s, many counties and states passed laws that separated whites from Black people. The purpose of these laws was to make whites feel like they were a part of a special group and better than Blacks.

Profound proclamations concerning life When you stand in front of a classroom of children for 57 years as I so enjoyably did, you encounter all sorts of questions, mostly about your personal life and sometimes about whatever topic we might have been discussing in class.

The funeral for Evan's brother-in-law had concluded two hours ago. And now a small group of grieving family and friends were gathered in Evan and Shaylie's home to share memories, laughter, tears, and encouragement. The front door opened again.

What would my mother think of that? Did you notice the Olympics is happening in Paris? You might have missed it only if you've been living under a rock.

Help with everyday survival kit One of the first things I learned in Bible School as a youngster in rural Hughes County was that a parable is an earthly story with a Heavenly meaning.

Division of the human family into two distinct political groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish and lobster in winter.