One Pharmacist's View

Skipping February What do you think about skipping February? And why? Well, just this.I don’t much like it.It’s too strange. Is winter about over just because the calendar says its February?No. In fact, some of our worst snows and ice storms came in this unneeded month.

It is generally believed that the 1918 flu epidemic infected 500 million people. The actual death toll is unknown but thought to be between 40 and 50 million.

Home Improvements I was visiting with my younger son this weekend and we talked about the modernimprovements we had been promised for our future. Yes, we saw the “wonder-car”film showing the man who pushed a button on the dash turning it into an airplane, and him, its owner, flying it away to work.

Life in Nicaragua Many years ago, in 1957, I found myself on an unexpected stop at a town in Nicaragua.

It’s the end of 2023 and I say good riddance. It’s been the best of times and the worst of times. Oh wait! That’s what Charles Dickens said in his book “Tale of Two Cities.” I remember my English Literature, Flossy Grogan teacher making us read this over at Stonewall.

Christmas Memories Christmas seems to always steal in on me, reminding me again how fast time passes.Time seems to catch all of us unaware. It continues, relentlessly.Sometimes it steals our loved ones from us.

About Getting Old It was tough on me turning 80. The girls at the newspaper had already put my 80th in the paper.It was now a public fact.None have yet shown me the respect that I had expected to see. When my grandpa turned 80, we threw him a big party.

Of Cabbages and Kings Last Saturday our Sooner football team and many thousands of Sooner fans made the drive down to the Dallas Cotton Bowl. The big arena has been expanded through the years and they say it can seat 96,100 Oklahoma-Texas football fans.

It was 95º last week. And here it is October. But I knew that it had been hot like this in the past. In 1953 on this date 70 years ago the high was 104º! I reminisced in my mind about this.

Summertime-and the going was easy When I was a kid in school at Stonewall summertime meant days of playing, swimming and being with my buddies. School was out, and this meant no teachers. But there comes a time when this blessed summertime ends, and time makes a drastic change in your life.