One Pharmacist's View

Sometimes We Forget I’ve been laid up sick a few days this new year and am making efforts to get all my ducks lined up so I can have some vertebrae surgically repaired and realigned so I can get back to normal.Whatever that is.I have a memory of a “long-ago time” concerning a nice lady named Dora.

Christmas Memories of 1955 At my old age of many Christmas memories, I heard a song on the radio the other day driving back from Oklahoma City. My carload of family was driving back to Allen after attending the funeral of my much-loved brother-inlaw, Fred Ellis, in Moore.

Considering December 7 th So why do we still make something of a fuss about “Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941?” It marks an important historical date for America. December 7th marks the first time any nation had dared attack us on our soil.

Thanksgiving Time Already?The gloomy wet views out of my breakfast room windows promised to go away before Pat and I get in our car and drive up for a sumptuous Thanksgiving meal up in North Tulsa hosted by our granddaughter Lindsey.

We all enjoy talking about obesity but now we have tired of it. As for my disgruntled readers who are tired of me writing about “fat” or “obese” please be assured that I have no malice toward fat people. In fact, I’m a little bit fat myself and some of my best friends are fat people.

From our files . . . A Hazy Day in AllenOne day, a long time ago, I walked out on the street in Allen. It was a breezy day with a little dust and trash moving around the curbs. Not many cars parked downtown and there stood J.I.

Looking for Allen History Driving the scenic Highway 1 between Ada and Allen a person passes through some nice and historic territory. The old Kullihoma Indian Reservation is here and there is a Historic Marker signifying the location where Chief Black Dog camped and hunted buffalo back in 1834.

Utopia, Where? I notice the governor of California is wanting his “Utopia” back. At least that’s what I think he said. He got into quite a tizzy last week and stated he was tired of all the dystopia he saw all around him.

E AIt was a busy day. The phone was alive with business and as I glanced out over my store, I was pleased to see everyone was busy.Then things started to go downhill. My wife was working too, and she walked up to me and gave me that look. “I wish you’d wake up.

Press reports released by Oklahoma’s State Auditor, Cindy Byrd state that we (the Oklahoma Taxpayers) just got gipped out of two hundred million dollars. Yep, done stolen, paid out to our crooked politicians and probably spent. Not real sure I have a brain large enough to take this all in.