One Pharmacist's View

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.

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.

Going Through Airport Security Seeing what a danger terrorism is to the flying public made me glad to see security was on the lookout for my safter one morning not so long ago. Keeping us safe. Several recent test attempts to smuggle fake bombs, guns aboard passenger planes were successful.

The Big Tornado Night in Stonewall. It was what we would call a “sultry” night in Stonewall, Oklahoma, in 1947. I was 12 and I had a less than lucrative job running the popcorn stand at the Main Theatre there on Stonewell’s Main Street.I was glad to be there.