Life

Cheers to a New Year

January 1, 2012

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. – Mark Twain And that, in a nutshell, pretty well sums up both sides of [...]

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The Economy: Home for the Holidays

December 6, 2011

How do you do gifts in your family?  Do you do Dirty Santa?  Draw names?  Pick-a-Charity?  No Gifts Except for Kids? We do a little of each.  On one side, we’re drawing names.  On another, Dirty Santa.  On still another, we’re all making (or buying) desserts — cakes, candies, whatever — and then we’ll all [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2011

It’s 5:30 a.m.  I fell asleep around midnight, after baking a carrot cake and prepping the kitchen for the hordes descending later this morning.  I just took the turkey out of the fridge; it’s resting in the sink.  I’m resting in the living room, wondering whether to try to sleep just a little more or [...]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 !!!

November 8, 2011

So how are those 2011 New Year’s resolutions working for you?  Every year about this time people start to work on their good intentions for the next year.  Hey! What about all those good intentions we had for last year.  Did we lose that hundred pounds? How are those guitar lessons coming? Are all the [...]

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Tornado? Earthquake? Cigar? Cigarette?

November 6, 2011

Facebook and Twitter could barely contain their excitement: last night, Oklahoma experienced the highest-magnitude earthquake on record, a 5.6 originating near Sparks.  No injuries have been (thus far) reported, and while there is some damage, it appears to be mostly correctable. I had thought, when I missed the two or three earlier this year, that [...]

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Oklahoma Listed Among the Best States for Retirement in 2011

October 30, 2011

Oklahoma was recently ranked third for “Best States for Retirement in 2011″ by MoneyRates.com. Criteria for the ranking included economy, climate, life expectancy, and crime. Oklahoma ranked right at the top for economic factors which overcame its’ lower ranking factors of life expectancy and crime. Oklahoma got the best overall score for economics, because its [...]

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Autumn Drive

September 24, 2011

When I was a child, my year began in Autumn.  I guess most kids’ do; summer ends, the school year starts, and everything begins again.  My mother taught elementary school from before I was born until last year.  When I was old enough, I rode to school with her in the early mornings.  Extremely early [...]

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New Exhibtions at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art

September 10, 2011

There are two new exhibits at the museum that are absolutely a must see from September 8 – December 31, 2011. Faded Elegance Photographs of Havana by Michael Eastman and Poodles & Pastries and other important matters New Paintings by Franco Mondini-Ruiz. Faded Elegance has to be some of the most beautiful photo’s I’ve ever [...]

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16 or 17 Trillion?

September 8, 2011

“I don’t see what it matters whether you’re 16 trillion or 17 trillion in debt just borrow the money and let’s get on with life.” I heard these words coming from somewhere in the men’s locker room this morning after my swim. Everyone reading this blog who knows me knows that I had to respond [...]

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Computers vs. Life

September 1, 2011

“Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans” – John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” (Geffen Records, November 1980) I was doing research for some articles on Historic Preservation ordinances when Linda and I were hit with a good, solid dose of life. Our e-mail got hijacked. And the fact that it’s [...]

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