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With the dawning of a new year comes a deluge of resolutions, reminders, and exhortations. They all follow similar how-to themes— how to increase your efficiency, how to make every moment count, how to invest your time wisely and productively.

As we enter the new year, I still remain a confused senior…I hope our readers enjoy this humorous dose of reality.So now cocaine is legal in Oregon, but straws aren’t. That must be frustrating.Still trying to get my head around the fact that ‘Take Out’ can mean food, dating, or murder.

It is said our great-grandfathers called it the holy Sabbath, our grandfathers the Sabbath, our fathers Sunday, and we call it the weekend. We have substituted the holiday for the holy day, recreation for reverence, games for godliness, and dissipation for devotion.

It’s December! We have already started receiving “Letters to Santa,” and Christmas memories from area youngsters. They are so much fun to read. However, at the top of the list is the subject of angels when explained by children…. 2. Everybody's got it all wrong. Angels don't wear halos anymore.

Well, once again the Christmas season is upon us. It seems we hardly get through the Fourth of July before the stores are hawking Christmas items nowadays.

Sometimes we just don’t realize how “lucky” we are. David Martin knows that he is… It all began with a car accident in January. Driving in snowy and icy conditions, my car spun out and plowed into an oncoming vehicle.The front end of my car on the passenger side was totaled.

We all know that drugs are destroying our country. It is not just in the bigger cities but the problem exists in most small communities. Recently, only seven miles from Holdenville, there were two gang-related shootings.

You know time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems like yesterday that I was young, just married, and embarking on my new life with my mate. Yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all those years went.I know that I lived them all.

Halloween was Tuesday night and Philip Gulley shared the thoughts of many of us when he wrote the following: For nine years, my wife and I lived in the city, down a long lane, next to the Quaker meeting I pastored.

A Senior Citizens LamentThought I’d let my doctor check me, cause I didn’t feel quite right. All those aches and pains annoyed me, and I couldn’t seep at night. He could find no real disorder, but he wouldn’t let it rest. What with Medicare and Blue Cross, it wouldn’t hurt to do some tests!