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With the dawning of a new year comes a deluge of resolutions, reminders, and exhortations. They all follow similar how-to themes— how to increase your efficiency, how to make every moment count, how to invest your time wisely and productively.

No doubt life is always changing. If you don’t like the weather it will change, eventually. It’s been hot most all over but cooler weather will come. In most of the country, cooler weather will be welcomed sooner rather than later.

As we enter the new year, I still remain a confused senior…\I hope our readers enjoy this humorous dose of reality.So now cocaine is legal in Oregon, but straws aren’t. That must be frustrating.Still trying to get my head around the fact that ‘Take Out’ can mean food, dating, or murder.

Christmas is always changing. The biblical story never changes but your story is always changing. How we celebrate and view the story of Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus may change throughout life. We view the story one way as children but then the story matures as we age.

More tips for holiday shopping Lefovers from last week’s suggestions for holiday gift giving: MISCELLANEOUS GUIDELINES: 1. Husband concedes that writing thank you notes for the entire household and buying gifts for Husband’s business associates are not the Wife’s job. 2.

Here’s what happens so often. A person becomes an adult, marries, has children, grows ill or old, and dies. Then the family of the deceased comes together to grieve, and to then plan the funeral.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.DITCH THE HELICOPTER There are parents who say “My children are my whole world.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished In 1957 I was an electronics technician in the Navy on a little destroyer that was home ported in Boston. A change in my life came about one day when the ship’s executive officer asked me to help him audit our ships store.

Mental fitness exam for retirees This is a mental fitness evaluation for people who are considering retirement or for those already retired and might be experiencing second thoughts. If you get one right, you are doing OK. If you get none right, you might better go for counseling.

The young lady had gigantic dreams. Visions of becoming a movie star filled her daydreams constantly. From the very first movie she saw as a child, and was entranced as the female lead lit up the big screen. She wanted to be her.