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Sometimes We Forget I’ve been laid up sick a few days this new year and am making efforts to get all my ducks lined up so I can have some vertebrae surgically repaired and realigned so I can get back to normal. Whatever that is.I have a memory of a “long-ago time” concerning a nice lady named Dora.

Family UniversityAs a child, and then a young man, growing up in the home of Marge and Ted Priest, I didn’t realize I was attending an educational institution. I thought I was just growing up in a family. My life back then was filled with school, church, chores, and little league baseball.

Much of America is enjoying a large dose of winter this week. There will be more to come.This is butt burning weather, but let me explain. When I was around four or five years old I drank too much soda pop before I went to bed.

“The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.” Abigail McCarthyFor most humans in modern America, we find ourselves shopping in our local grocery stores most every week. So it is with our family.

“The chief fault and default position that seems to lead to the decline in the number of husbands and wives.” A line taken from a song released decades ago, and recently re-released by Brookes & Dunn. Still so true today.The song is talking about Pride - the chief fault of us all.

There is a reason that the majority of Americans do not trust the mainstream media. One reason is that they are liars, and another is that they are anti-American. Consider the recent death of the Minnesota lady and how they left wing media reported it.

When I lived over in Centrahoma, a long time ago, farming was a lot different than what emerged from the 40s and 50s. In my time over there I was a grade school aged kid, and I usually confined “peanut farming” to what I could pick up, shake and fill my pockets for munching.

There are people who live to be offended. They’re called Progressives.

Christmas Memories of 1955At my old age of many Christmas memories, I heard a song on the radio the other day driving back from Oklahoma City. My carload of family was driving back to Allen after attending the funeral of my much-loved brother-inlaw, Fred Ellis, in Moore.

Where did these words come from? I don’t know when I first noticed that a lot of new words were being introduced into my vocabulary. Being an old guy who had practiced pharmacy for many years I first noticed that words that I was not familiar with were being bandied around on my computer.