One Pharmacist's View

I remember one nice day in Oklahoma 75 years ago when I volunteering to drive my grandfather, Will W. Armstrong, down to Wister for a visit with his daughter. I was the only one handy that day and besides, being a teenager with a new driver’s license, I looked forward to the trip.

Allen History Marches On Allen has had several tornadoes over its life but the most recent one had its own unique qualities. Only twister I know of that placed a heavy rider mower on its owner’s roof.Or leave “Skeeter” Hogue scratching his head over whose roof was laying on his own roof.

Where does a person go after death? We need to understand one thing from the beginning.When you draw your last halting shallow breath on this earth, from that point on, you are winging it on your own, with no one to run interference for you.Family ties mean nothing in eternity.

Is It Spring Yet?Well, it’s closer than you think. Daylight savings time starts this Sunday. Again. Not sure if I like that, but I am hard to please. Unlike one of my old customers who sincerely thought DST was burning up his garden — I am just lazy enough to dislike changing my clocks.

It’s February AgainFebruary just kinda sneaks up on us and I know it seems like it will last forever. That may be part of the reason “they” chopped off a few days to reduce the time we have to wait on Spring.

Taking The Shot One big question floating around our area is this: “Did you get your Covid/Flu shots yet?” Well, it's a serious question and not easily answered in times like these. I grew up in a time when we had quite a bit of faith and confidence in our leadership.

Roosevelt CoffeeIt wasn’t until the middle of 1942 that we Centrahoma folk realized we faced yet another wartime hardship. The great coffee shortage. Seemed like it affected our fellow Americans too. We were each buying and consuming 20 pounds of coffee per year in 1942. But no worry.

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.

Building The WallBack in 2017 Donald Trump was the new kid on the block and America seemed to have one big question. Will the “Donald” build his historical wall and if so, what will it look like? The world has seen many walls built in the past.There was the great wall of China built way back when.

Different Strokes I was just reading about how folks across the plains are taking the election results of last week.Reminds me of 1944 when the papers (back east) whined and moaned how our “system” allowed such a mental midget (Truman) to replace our late great Roosevelt.He was who he was.