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A super dad
People will celebrate Father's Day this weekend. They will spend about $15 billion to show their great love for their father who has sacrificed so much (we know of some exceptions). Comic book heroes...
Get ready to fight Medicare fraud
Over the last 25 years, we’ve witnessed amazing advances in science and medicine. What was once thought impossible is now being accomplished. Genetic testing is one example. With a small sample of saliva, your risk for certain diseases can be predi...
Happy Father's Day to fathers everywhere
If you have been on the outs with your father, or son and daughter, consider this a great day to make amends. Let's all have a blessed day with our families. A little free food will also help. One...
The Sabbath submission
Ever since I have had our boys and they have become involved in extracurricular activities, I have noticed a trend that has caused me to become more concerned. That trend is the way we treat the Sabbath. That day may be Saturday or Sunday depending...
Spiritually Speaking
Well folks, the Alva School of Music has officially gone to the dogs. The bittersweet news was announced Friday evening at the final exercises of the 47th Annual Singing School. Next year’s school will be held in Weatherford (home of SWOSU – Boo...
Random Thoughts
When Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for vice-president on the Democratic Party’s ticket in 1920, he became a prominent national political figure. And even though the Democrats lost badly that year,...
I am your American flag
(Ed. note: June 14 is Flag Day.) I’ve been to the moon. I’ve been burned. But more often I’m honored. I’m your American flag. With 13 stars for colonies clamoring for freedom, I was first flown at Fort Stanwix in New York in 1777 and then...
Lunar landing
When President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate money for a moon mission, we had “no rockets powerful enough, no computers portable enough, no spacesuits,” according to Smithsonian Magazine....
Becoming a Top 10 state
We are past the first session of the 57th Legislature, and I can confidently say that this administration has hit the ground running on delivering accountability, transparency and results. As your...
Fondling fathers tour
On the political front, Bill Clinton will be joining Joe Biden on the campaign trail. They're calling it the "Fondling Fathers" tour! Please attend church today, if for nothing else but to pray for...
God MUST come first
Hello Alva! (Or wherever you happen to be reading this.) I hope you’re enjoying yourselves, but mostly, I hope you’re living with the joy of serving Christ as your King! On Sunday morning, our church has been going through the book of 1 Samuel an...
Spiritually Speaking
It’s Monday afternoon of Singing School week. According to the flier, this is the 47th annual Alva School of Music and the congregation is playing host to around 35 students from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The euphemism, “herding cats” might c...
D-Day
A scene from the classic movie “Jurassic Park” has a humorous yet terrifying moment when Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom flees the Tyrannosaurus in his Jeep. “Must go faster,” he exclaims,...
Random Thoughts
In this technological era in which we live, candidates for high political office – among other things – have to look good on television. Those people running for president, for example, will...
Keeping my brain in shape
When an ambulance call comes across the radio scanner, I listen to learn if it’s someone I know. Frequently they’ll say “an elderly female” or list an age. Then it dawns on me that I’d be...
Carl's Capitol Comments
With the end of the legislative session officially here, it’s time to take a look back at what we accomplished during our whirlwind four months at the state Capitol. We started the session with 1,193 House bills and 32 House joint resolutions and 1...
Barbara Faulkner's 80?
Saturday, June 1, was a busy day for Alva. Besides the 50th Nescatunga Arts Festival, there was the 15th Mud Slinger Shootout at the fairgrounds. This also was the day Wayne and Beverly Kinzie chose...
Image and community
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth....
Spiritually Speaking
When I was a little kid, my parents often had “singings” at our home. Daddy was a talented worship leader and loved to host gatherings where 15 or 20 friends would cram into our living room and sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Of course,...
Snowplow parents
Felicity Hoffman pled guilty to a college admission scandal and the U.S. Attorney recommended 12 months imprisonment and a $20,000 fine. Thirty-two other parents have been indicted on fraud charges...
Random Thoughts
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we are in the beginning stages of our next presidential election. It seems to me, in fact, that we never quit having such contests; as soon as one ends, the next...
Record flooding for Salt Fork
Sunday afternoon the press crew and I were finishing the pressrun of the Nescatunga Arts Festival section that's included in this Newsgram. I checked my phone for the latest weather updates and was...
Happy Memorial Day to all
Because of Dad's 90th birthday party, we opted to not have a reunion this year. Most of the family were there and the ones we missed will be at the Short Springs School for the Memorial Day program....
A long thin line of personal anguish
NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 17, 1944 – In the preceding column we told about the D-day wreckage among our machines of war that were expended in taking one of the Normandy beaches. But there is another...
One common event
Humanity is truly a diverse lot. We come in different shapes, sizes and colors. We come from different backgrounds, we have various degrees of beliefs and values, each of us have a different set of circumstances that determines everything from our...
