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What were Christmases like in early Indian Territory?

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[Why our area has its particular political and religious attitudes.] Christmas! What other Holy Day creates such feelings of joy, happiness, mirth, merriment, and despair? I am naturally of the ‘feel good’ temperament driven by dopamine, but also see the melancholy side of many. To everyone, the year has been fraught with frustration, apprehension, and…

Replacing a trusty waterbed with a high-dollar mattress

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When Susan and I got married in 1982, our first purchase was a California king waterbed. We were not hippies but we liked to sleep on a comfortable mattress and waterbeds were remarkably inexpensive. For almost 40 years, we slept on that waterbed. We replaced the mattress twice and the heater twice. And we replaced…

The antiquated Yellow Pages never had all of the answers

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I got home the other day and there on my front porch, wrapped in plastic, was a copy of the Yellow Pages. Do you remember when you had to load up the trunk of my car with unused copies and haul them off to the recycling bin. If I knew where my delivery person lived,…

Lincoln Riley didn’t make a ‘hard decision’ to leave OU

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Former Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley said his decision to quit OU and take the head coaching job at USC was “the hardest decision” he ever had to make. Right. It was so hard that it took him less than half a day to make up his mind. Riley would have you believe that following…

It’s truly a great day when you allow Jesus Christ to ‘fix’ you

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My oldest grandson, Titus the Honorable, is 8 years old. He has been an odd child since birth. Now, “odd” can be interpreted two ways. It can mean strange, or it can represent a set of numbers. We have even numbers, and we have odd numbers. Neither one is better than the other. I am…

A community of mission leaders helped bring about peace

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] Among the very first Old Settler Cherokees, who migrated from near Chickamauga, Tennessee, was a distinguished clan who influenced the nation to this day. Talontuskee (Disrupter) was the leader of the tribe after 1817 while they lived near Illinois Bayou and Petit Jean Creek along…

Why have the Chevy Equinoxes been so difficult to find?

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In 2011, I bought a brand new Chevrolet Equinox in Tulsa for about $21,000. In 2014, I bought the Chevy Equinox that I now drive in Tulsa for about $22,000. Both times, it was a new car and the dealer offered me a significant discount because he was trying to make room for the new…

Everything that Jesus will offer you is absolutely genuine

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‘I am the oldest of four boys. The next to the oldest of these four boys is my younger brother Gary. Gary has spent most of his life in law enforcement and recently retired from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. He has had many positions, but the one I get the most joy out of…