Family Talk
Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.My Dad passed away some years ago and I still miss him every day.
Columns
“I’ll DO IT LATER... MUCH LATER”
Everyone knows how to procrastinate – including me. I decided about two months ago to write this column. Finally, today I had to force myself to sit down and begin. Why? Why do we humans put off doing what we know we need to do? From what I have observed, the animal kingdom doesn’t do that. Just us.
Family Talk
A little more graceI have a riddle for you.What is something we’ve all experienced and nearly all have heard of? It mostly means something negative but it could mean something positive. It was first heard in the 1950s but was not common until the 1970s.
Letter to the Editor Concerning State Question 820
Vote No On SQ 820The upcoming special election provides Oklahoma voters with a rare opportunity.
“Dad and Mom... Their Kids are Mirrors”
Kids, even the adult versions, display the effects of the greatest influences in life…their parents. It can show up in being a mirror image of a parent, becoming similar in actions and reactions. Or it can have the opposite effect.
Family Talk
Mind the GapI have been fortunate to visit England twice. One was a family vacation and the other an anniversary celebration.They were both memorable because we saw things we had read about in books while also seeing things we had never seen.
February Is Black History Month
Oklahoma Black Homesteader Project.”Carter G. Woodson was a scholar whose dedication to celebrating the historic contributions of Black people led to the establishment of Black History Month, marked every February since 1976.
Family Talk
Be Quiet! How many times did your parents yell something like “Be Quiet!” There were usually several exclamation points following the words and the decibel level of your parent was anything but quiet. Likely it was because you, the child, were being noisy, loud, demanding or irritating.
Family Talk
Recently I was reading in the Old Testament about a patriarch named Jacob whose name, not surprisingly, meant “deceiver”; Jacob was an “if-then” kind of guy.
“TRUST THAT AIRLINE AGAIN - OR NOT”
The holiday fun and games were over, and we were ready to fly home. But a middle of the night message informed us our flight was cancelled and we had to rebook. And we suddenly became birds without wings.
