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(PART I) Get a pencil and piece of paper and take the test. The weekend’s over and test time....remember? This is for the “younger” generation (assuming a few of them read this stuff. In 1977, I celebrated my 20 th year of teaching!!! Just sayin’. 1. When did ‘’Little Suzie’’ finally wake up?

As a kid, Andy was outdoors during much of the summer months. And not lying by the pool with a Coke in one hand and a fetch-it stick for his dog in the other. His dad started him at age nine to help in the family hay-hauling business. Working many times from “Can’t see to can’t see.

Alongside I-40 going into Oklahoma City is a large billboard informing passersby that a large percentage of Oklahoma’s children face a hungry bedtime. In other words, need food.

Here’s today’s Family Talk column….(I thought it was time to “lighten up”….) Readers’ Digest Magazine ran a contest calling for funny family stories. One of the winning entries came from Pat Tornatore from St. Louis, Missouri.

School is definitely back in session and it is like no other school year we have ever known, but some things remain the same. Namely, the humorous (often) true things that kids say and they don’t even know they are funny. Examples: CHILDREN ARE QUICK TEACHER: Why are you late?

It is true. Football season is finally here. Especially for OU, OSU and our Allen Mustangs. But things are vastly different this season from any season ever. It is this confounded Covid-19. It is got everything, especially my perceptions all messed up.

I do not know just how this is all going to work out. I saw the “Mighty Mustangs” on the cover of the Advocate last week. They looked capable but I must admit I didn’t recognize many of them. Well a few perhaps.

How many people can remember when an actual bell was rung to signal the beginning of school?

KYLIE JANEAL PARKER AND WILLIAM MONTANA MUSIL would like to announce their upcoming July wedding at Sweetbelle Farms of Holdenville,Ok. Kylie is the daughter of Mandy and Kenny Maxwell of Stuart, OK and Wally Parker of Tupelo, OK.

If you need a laugh today, then this should do it! And provide a real blessing at the same time. A child was asked to write a book report on the entire Bible. I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what we are teaching?