How many insurance commercials have you seen over the years that use the catch phrase " peace of mind?" When I was just a tike my dad did a stint with Prudential selling life insurance and their hook was " get a piece of the rock." I was confused about just exactly what rock they were speaking of. I am now 58 years old, and I still don't know so maybe age has nothing to do with it. We are all aware that when we begin speaking of health insurance there is no need for tricky w

In a parking lot last week, I saw a bumper sticker that said, "Bigfoot doesn't believe in you either." In the same lot I saw one that had an outline of the beast that was in rainbow colors, does that mean if he is ever found his shoes will match his purse? Or does it just mean we will soon see him riding on the Judy Garland float in the next pride parade? Do you suppose that people who live around Lockless are also ate to the bone with the existence of Nessie? The questions t

I'm not sure about you but when I think about my childhood I smile a lot. It may be the time that I decided I was a good enough skateboarder that I could negotiate the steep grade hill we lived on, and then mom spent two hours digging gravel out of my leg. Often as kids we are not dealing with a full deck. I was all of twelve years old when I was offered a job at a local restaurant where my brother already worked. Now, allow me to stipulate, technically that could be a violat

One who is perplexed might ask, what is the difference between testosterone and estrogen? Well, that's simple, testosterone makes you do dicey things like climb atop a 2,000-pound bull without any regard for the welfare of your spine. Estrogen makes you long for an over-abundance of throw pillows on your bed and causes you to tear up during Bridgette Jones movies. There are specific differences between the separation of men and woman that go far beyond chemical compositions,

To say that life is a gamble may be the understatement of the century. At my job we have a truck driver that as a child was struck by tragedy in his early life, a plane crashed into an inferno next to his home at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City Oklahoma and he was badly burned. Now fast forward some sixty years and he is fighting cancer. Where is the justice? It seems that hate, discontent, and tragedy should be shared equally with all of us, not just rained down on a c

When you have been bitten by the "tight" bug you will know it. It's when you remember the last time a 12oz can of soda took a 10-cent jump clearly, but you cannot remember what you had for lunch yesterday. If you are not naturally as tight as bark on a tree like I am, it's a pretty hard trait to learn. The last time I checked OSU does not offer a " Tightass #101" course in their economics department. Which by the way I COULD teach, teaching certificate notwithstanding. I coul

Do you find yourself in a hurry and feeling stressed often? Have you ever taken the time to ask yourself why? Allow me to take that thought just one step further and ask this question, "have you ever considered that the only person you are in competition against is YOURSELF?" I grew up in a home where I was raised primarily by my mom and grandma and there wasn't time to be competitive, they were too busy trying to keep their head above water financially. So, one might say I

As with all things, the difference between shoe buying practices when comparing men to women are night and day. In order to understand these differences, we must first examine for a moment just how each gender perceives their own feet. You'll never catch a man drawing attention to his feet like a woman does. You will never catch a man painting his toenails hot pink, slipping on a toe ring, or adorning his ankle with jewelry. That's because men mostly have ugly feet and we tre

I have so many questions regarding the homeless. Why do we tiptoe around the subject? Why are there so many more now than when I was a kid? Does that mean that drug problems are just worse now? Why is that it is not inherently against the law to be homeless, but many other laws tend to throw the problem under the proverbial bus like it being unlawful to sleep in public areas and being shewed away from bust intersections? If this is really the case, I'm pretty sure I have brok

A salty old welder from Owasso once told to me , "There aren't many new ideas under the sun." I think what he meant was there were very few thoughts that can be on par with a lightbulb moment. It seems I never had a pencil stuck in my overalls pocket when he laid the big quotes on me. Then he said something I wish I had written down, and it went something like this, " life is the time between sunrise and sunset when we contemplate the great unknown." When you think about it