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Halloween used to be fun before everything got so weird

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Back when I was growing up in the 1960s, Halloween was a fun time for kids. Now it’s bizarre and dangerous. When we dressed up like a ghost, we just cut a few eye holes in an old sheet and draped it over our heads. Occasionally, someone would have their mom use makeup so they…

Democrats haven’t gotten over losing the presidential race

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The following is a previously published column. I was in Denver, Colorado, in 2000 when it was announced that George W. Bush was elected president over former Vice President Al Gore. I figured that Gore would raise a big stink and inspire bitterness in his followers but at least at that time, he was gracious….

Car adventure ends by our purchase of a Buick Encore

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For almost a year, I have been shopping for a new car. We owned two cars, a 2014 Chevy Equinox (with only 65,000 miles) and a 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser (with only 78,500 miles). We bought the PT Cruiser 10 years ago when the two cars we had then both had more than 160,000 miles…

My meager collection of coffee mugs each tell a story

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I have a pretty good assortment of coffee cups from a wide variety of places. If I am a coffee cup collector, it’s more by accident than on purpose. The oldest cup I own is really a beer stein from Europe. When I was in college, my friends Marsha and Terri went to Europe during…

You have to listen very carefully to get all the lyrics right

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Did you ever have a favorite song but there were some lyrics that were a little jumbled and you had no idea what they were? It happens all the time. In the song, I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight by Cutting Crew, one phrase is, “I Just died in your arms tonight, it must…

This is August and it is supposed to be hot in Oklahoma

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I used to hate the summer heat. For the first 30 years of my professional life, I wore a coat and tie to work. In the late 1970s, former President Jimmy Carter tried to get professional men to dress less formally to save money on energy. (He also mandated a 55-mph speed limit and neither…

This is what I did to lose about 40 pounds in 5 months

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I’ve lost about 40 pounds since March 1. Hurray! This is the most weight I have ever lost in one season. When I was 21, I lost 35 pounds at my summer job, which was delivering furniture for Manhattan Furniture. I wasn’t trying to lose weight that summer but it happened. About 10 years or…

It’s a challenge trying to be a long-distance Grandpa

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I never met one set of my grandparents, my mother’s parents, the late Amos Whitten Rogers and Elizabeth Mae Rogers of West Virginia. Believe it or not, they were both born in 1875 – 144 years ago! They had 11 children, who were born from 1895 through 1917. My mother was born in 1911. She…

Covering the police department can be quite a challenge

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Early in my career as a journalist, I was assigned as a “late night police reporter.” I worked for a big daily newspaper that came out in the mornings. That shift typically was from 3 p.m. to midnight. The newspaper had three staggered editions and the last one – the one that went to people…

Some college courses make you want to scratch your head

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When I was at The University of Oklahoma, I took Theory of Basketball, Theory of Baseball, Theory of Wrestling, Theory of Track and Field and, of course, Theory of Football. I was a journalism major and I thought I wanted to be a sportswriter, so I took these courses. All but Theory of Wrestling were…