One Pharmacist's View

May we always remember the long 17 days we just endured. It may not have been as entertaining as the winter of ’48 but so far it sure has my attention. It has been a time of something just getting worse. And yes it could have been worse. For many others it was. For me it started out on the 5 th .

It was said, more out of hope than reality back during the election, that Joe Biden was a centrist not a radical. Sounded good. But about what? Being a centrist. he would pay less attention to the extreme right wing. And is Biden “one of them?” Did we at last elect a Truman Democrat?

Groundhog Day So, it was on Tuesday the 2 nd . Since we do not have any real groundhogs, here in Allen, such as Punxsutawney Phil, I thought I would watch the yard closely on Tuesday. What could I watch for? I have a busy crowd of gophers, moles, and armadillos.

Of the Five Tribes, the Cherokees were the largest holder of Africans as chattel slaves. By 1860 the Cherokees had 4,600 slaves. Many Cherokees depended on them as a bridge to white society. Full-blood Indian slave owners relied on the blacks as English interpreters and translators.

All of us are ready for a new year. Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021. A new start. An end to the Covid-19 Pandemic. All of us by now have seen friends and family hit or even now struggling with this deadly virus. Many of us have struggled with friends who never did accept that it was anything serious.

Lydia Ann (Taylor) Dunjee was born March 13, 1846 and would have been 83 years old when she died. She and her family, born freemen, were of the Old Dominion, Virginia. She was reared by a white family of Taylors, for she was one of a large family of three sons and seven daughters.

Burl Ives can sing his little heart out about having a merry-little Christmas this year but how merry can it be with Covid-19 dictating the way we live and what we do. Never been a Christmas like this one.

Civil Rights lawyer, politician, and Oklahoma City NAACP president, E. Melvin Porter became the first African American to attain an Oklahoma Senate seat. Born in Okmulgee on May 22, 1930. Melvin Porter joined the U.S. Army right out of high school to earn enough money to put himself through college.

My mom had a twin. Not identical but they were a lot alike in looks and in their ways. I always liked coming over and visiting the twin’s family, especially those many years ago when they lived here at Allen. They had two boys (among their many assorted children) about my age.

Another December 7th . Yes, it is another Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day next Monday. It is an internationally known metaphor for disasters such as the day Japanese aircraft mounted a sneak attack on America’s 7th fleet peacefully at anchor in Hawaii. As such the slogan is remembered to this day.