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Never one to love a trip to the dentist, I found myself in one’s lair last week. You may remember last week I told you about my hectic and aborted trip to see my new girl doctor up at the VA and after a hectic and tardy start—I got a call to not come. Well that was not good. But I got a call from the VA dental offices the next day. The officious lady on the other end of the line told me to be there early the next morning.
Read moreSo, I said to myself just last week, I have got this old age stuff whipped. Pushing 86 my next birthday I quietly made plans to just go ahead and live to be 106. I mean, why not? It’s just will power. Sounded easy enough then. But along came Thursday. I had a 9:00 a.m. appointment up at the VA in Oklahoma City. It was my first appointment with my new doctor, a younger and somewhat good looking female. I had a picture of her, and I was anxious to meet her. An earlier appointment with her had been cancelled for unknown reasons but that was then.
Read moreWhat in the heck is a Woke Taliban? These newest protestors now rampaging and terrorizing America. The term “WOKE” refers to “social awareness.” While the name Taliban refers to the Afghanistan’s who fought (with US aid) against the Russians during that conflict.
Read moreAllen has a long and colorful history. The earlier Cold Springs name came long ago when settlers heading west passed through this area on their way to (where else?) further out west. Many stopped here because of the cold springs. Some simply stayed a bit, camping on the river. And yes, the great Canadian River was quite a stream then. No one had built dams, lakes or to impede its flow toward the Mississippi. Commercial steamboats even made their way up this river as far as Ft. Holmes.
Read moreEaster was subdued and strange in Allen this year. There were no Easter church services this year. Stores were mostly locked and empty. Shopping centers in the cities are shuttered. There is no Annual Easter Egg Hunt in Allen City Park. If the long-time promoter of this event, Buck Gilmore, was still alive he would be surprised. But it was the Corona Virus—a Pandemic that has shut down much of the world. Who knew it could shut down all the churches in America? But it has.
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The young people have their texting codes . . . however little do they know that us ole timers have our codes also . . .
Read moreHere it is. Another week. Same old Corona virus. Well not really. But it does make me think of the old 1918 Spanish Flu that swept the world. In 1918 there was not much radio and no TV. News traveled slow. Grandpa probably had heard little about the flu when he boarded the train there in Wister to travel to Fort Smith for a song leader’s conference. George Boyd was the song leader at the Free Will Baptist Church there in Liberty, a nice little church next to Mountain Creek in the shadow of Wolf Mountain.
Read moreThe worst of long days? Who can say? Depends on where and who you are. And did it affect your life and where your live? My first awareness of wars came on a Sunday in December of 1941. It was a day that started just fine for the family of Bullards that lived in the little backwater town of Centrahoma. A Sunday, that we had the temporary preacher (and his large ravenous family) for dinner—just as we had for three previous Sundays. As we sat around the
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