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I did fairly good on memory stuff until I got to be about 80. Then I noticed it was hard for me to remember some people’s names. Names of some trees also come to mind. I have an ancient Box Elder tree in my back yard but alas, someone asked me one day what kind of tree it was and that was when I first noticed that its name had left me. Names of old friends— they came and went. But mostly I get by cause if I forget your name down at the post office, relax. It will come to me after I get home. Which brings me to another subject: Computers.
Read moreWhen I was a young teenager living in Holdenville, OK I would visit and hang out in Sims Grocery Store. Here Charlie Sims and his wife would sell groceries on the credit, buy furs, and buy pecans. In the large storage area in the back of the store I would sit on the one hundred pound sacks of pecans and listen to the old men and Native American Indians tell stories of the past. These were stories about the depression days, the dust bowl, WWI and my favorite stories were about bank robbers and of course I took it all in like a sponge.
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A woman, cranky because her husband was late coming home again, decided to leave a note, saying, “I’ve had enough and have left you... don’t bother coming after me!”
Read moreIn 1939 my best friend Lewis Blackwell, who was fourteen at the time, had the good fortune to land a steady Saturday job with our local general store. Although there may have been dozens of similar jobs for boys in small towns throughout Southeastern Oklahoma back then, it’s doubtful that even one could be found nowadays.
Read moreI Didn’t Vote for Trump in 2016, But I’d Craw Over Broken Glass to Vote for Him Now
Read moreJuly 26, 1962 Farmers Smile After Rains Soak County
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