Columns

Slow Down the Christmas rushI'd like to invite you to join my campaign to slow down the Christmas rush. To being, I have a suggestion this holiday sea son that will, hopefully, entertain both you and your family in a way to which you are unaccustomed. Yes, I know, it's a busy time.

Football in Oklahoma I haven’t always understood the subtleties of football in Oklahoma but luckily my dad was a Sooner Fan. He had to explain to me while I was still young what a Sooner was and how we got that name but I’ll spare you all that.

Everybody knows finances are tight today. Now, one can only hope against hope that by the time this column hits your hands, the sentence I just wrote is a lie.

mailto:jpriest@okgoodwill.orgI remember my first job as a stock boy at a downtown department store when I was in high school. My main tasks were lifting heavy boxes, unpacking crates, and doing various other jobs. It was an important experience for me.

As a life-long resident, business owner, and landowner in the target area, I am strongly against the turbine powered wind farms being solicited and built by foreign corporations in Hughes County for several reasons.

This may be the most frightening Halloween of all time. People across America are scared stiff as we are bombarded 24-hours a day with terrifying scenes splashed across television, our telephones and tablets.

Language is not the only thing that has gone by the wayside. How many of you remember the pay phones?

What my children taught me about parentingThis week I saw a columnist post an inquiry to readers asking, “What did your kids teach you about parenting?” This interesting question made me wonder how I would answer it. So here’s my take on the question.

If there has ever been a time in my life when I feel like crawling under the bed with a blankie and lying there whimpering – it just might be now. Now, I really don’t see myself as a wimp, like a girl who has never had to face anything more unpleasant than a pimple on her nose on prom night.

An Exaggerated Report I guess everyone has wondered what would happen to his job, his family, his good old buddies if he happened to unexpectedly die. How — one can wonder — would they take it. I had a little taste of that one day.