Have you ever considered that in the animal kingdom the only individuals who fling their own poo at each other are higher primates; that...

People who know me well understand that I love absurdity. We regularly pass pictures around at work with those overtones. Today one of my...

Most of us agree about what a fiasco Covid was. No matter what side of the fence your belief lies on we can all agree that it was a huge...

In the winds of change (at least in Oklahoma) these days you can always smell brownies baking. At this point in time (October 2022) there are as many pot shops in Broken Arrow Oklahoma as there are convivence stores, which we all know is unsustainable, not to mention ridiculous. In addition, the number of questions I have about THC are wide, varied, and in no particular order, and here they are. At what point did the brownie become the go-to dessert item for people who enjoy

I usually like to write about quotable Americans like Abe Lincoln and Winston Churchill, but today I have chosen to quote myself. Here is my quote " the number one thing that helps us remember that we enjoy the absence of people is the presence of people. Don't get me wrong, to some extent I love most folks. But n othing will make you appreciate an empty house more than having a home full of ungrateful relatives over Thanksgiving weekend. Making three kinds of stuffing in or

Last Sunday on the way out of the church parking lot I helped a young woman to her car after she broke a heel. She had fallen, seriously...

Trying to teach sex education from my back porch swing in Broken Arrow Oklahoma could be tricky, so I'll tread lightly. Has anyone...

People often talk about the horrors of dying. Sigmund Freud died of throat cancer at the age of thirty-nine, but I heard he blamed that...

People often refer to ghost like those ghoulish spirits under white sheets like you see in Scooby Doo cartoons which, in the end is a...

I assume it is widely known in most family circles (at least in the buckle of the Bible belt) that Jesus referred to himself three times...

On our family tree workaholics are everywhere. Some of us have it worse than others. Some grow out of it or sometimes (by default) we grow into it like a case of adult asthma; but we all have it to some degree on mom's side of the family. And it's as hard to shake as a cold sore you contracted at a Motley Crue concert. In the last sentence I purposefully used the word "contracted" instead of caught. Contraction is something you get by a lack of due diligence on your own part

Certain phenomenon has existed nearly forever, but as a man sometimes it takes a while for me to catch on. I often ask myself why it is...

Dad and I had three memorable things we did often together in my youth. #1) we would stop at a little quick shop in my hometown called " Toot N Tell." It was called that because you drove up, tooted your horn, and you would tell them what you wanted. The brown paper bag we would take home would usually consist of a pack of Camels and about fifty pieces of bubble gum. The old man liked to see how many pieces of gum I could fit in my mouth at one time which was a blast for both

Back in the day, anytime I started to throw a big-name box store under the bus the editor for the newspaper I was writing for would get as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. In those instances, I would try to pull off a little hat trick like they did in the movie Coming to America when they would tongue in cheek compare McDonalds to McDowells. My editor who (God rest her soul) is gone now, knew much more about corporate law than I did so I couldn'

Do you think it makes a person morbidly curious if they often examine death? I'm not talking about watching YouTube videos about how to prepare a dead body for the grave, I'm talking the how's and whys of the way we exist in this life and how we remain human within it. I am a Christian, I believe in the father, his son Jesus Christ, and their grand plan for our souls. The place it slides off in the ditch for me is how one minute we are here, flesh and blood, a breathing soul

When was the last time you were giddy. I remember feeling that sensation at age five right outside the grocery store when mom gave me a hand full of quarters and told me I could ride the mechanical horse. This past Monday I saw people giddily staring up at the sky attempting to catch a glimpse of the 2024 installment of the solar eclipse. All of a sudden everyone wanted to borrow my welding hood. I advised them (all of them) that they were going to need a number fourteen filt

Have you ever heard the saying "an ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure?" Not only is it humorous, but it is also true. You...

Last week I read a headline in the Tulsa World that stated that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping stated he would (and I quote) " like to see Chinese role models for young men be more manly and less limp wristed" end quote. I never pictured myself agreeing with a foreign dictator, yet here we are. Gender bending as I see it is a thing right now, because let's be honest it's cool and in style. After this madness falls out of favor it will be something else. It has become a way to ge

Tommy Lee Jones who to me will always be Woodro F Call from the movie Lonesome Dove has been quoted saying this about Texas: " The thing that gets under your skin and truly makes you a Texan is not in the wind; it's in the dirt." Texans and Okies often think alike, that is until it comes time for the Red River shootout. However, in Oklahoma it IS the wind, possibly because there is so much of it. People here in Northeastern Oklahoma once they find out I am from the western

Men who exude assuredness about who they are seem more attractive to women. But those that feel their lives are a work in progress are dang near irresistible. In going over these human attributes I have figured out why so many ladies are attracted to the many and varied roles of Kevin Costner. I am uncertain if even he realizes it, but this is a theme that runs through all of his movies. Chances are, he does, he seems pretty self-aware of what he projects onscreen. From the n