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It’s been six years since I completed my 57 and final year as a teacher and I’ll be honest with you, in many ways I am glad that I am not having to face the classroom (and out of classroom) challenges that teachers are facing in this topsy-turvy year of the COVID and the situations it creates.
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It’s not too early to start hinting for gifts for Santa to put under my tree. Al Wilburn is a young (at heart) guy who lives in Harrah and has been known to provide Santa-type gifts for a wide variety of folks in the past.
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Thanksgiving is just TOO much for one column so here goes another called Thanksgiving II.
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I spent my first two years of college in Nashville, TN, which I considered as getting my education in “The South.”
Read moreI have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don’t have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don’t have acne. Life is great.
Read moreHere’s a warning all the way from the Big Lake region in Reagan County (West) TX from publisher Randy Mankin who ran into any number of frustrations while shopping for a new vehicle.
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I have been associated with a variety of newspapers in one category or another for the past 70 years. It all started when I was a freshman at Holdenville High School and the World’s Best English Teacher (Christine Provence) leaned over my desk as she handed back a theme I had written in her freshman English Class and whispered, “John Bill, I think you have a talent for writing. You might want to pursue that.”
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