Easter 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
Read moreWhen a kid I nearly always welcomed a good snow. Even if it meant wading through the cow lot doing the milking and taking care of ungrateful livestock under bad conditions. Maybe close the school? For sure it changed the looks of things and hid the liter that covered our Oklahoma countryside. At least for a little while. But even then, most of our “snows” were more of a fizzle than anything.
Read moreLots of things happened and/are happening during our lifetimes. Some are hard to believe and in fact, a lot of people don’t. Scientific stuff. Sometimes it’s surprising.
Read moreA few years back Pat and I were in a place called Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Read moreWhile my better half and I joined the declining number of people who still watch pro-football we got to see our 49ers come back from a big fi rst half
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