sally's alley
Where is the chimney? I want in. Oh no! Well…maybe, well…O.K. How ’bout some supper?
O.K. We admit I’m a sucker for any stray who drops by the house, the office, the barn…wherever. Any dog, cat or even the occasional horse that happens by has pretty much found a home. Of the seven...
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Gifts may not be a surprise on Christmas morn
The allure of surprise Christmas presents is just too much for some of us. Well, after a discussion among my office mates last week, apparently all of us. This all came to light when one of the mo...
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‘Angels we are shopping for...’
It’s time to wrap Christmas presents! Do you believe that? Come on! I’m still trying to figure out what pumpkin to buy. I’m wondering if it’s my age (old — well not THAT old) that makes time spe...
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Empty tank flusters mom
Lori W., Your TIMES super computer layout person, came into work all flustered one morning recently. She grabbed a hair brush and began brushing her long light brown hair furiously. “Morning,” I...
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Fall is a fine time
Fall is the most beautiful time of the year in Oklahoma. Summer’s heat has fled, and cool, spicy temps and breezes charge up my body’s batteries and suddenly I’m not just a blob of body sitting on...
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Rental car riddles
It was supposed to be just a nostalgic long-weekend trip, and in order to avoid spending all our money feeding my gas-guzzling pickup, we decided to rent a car. I can’t say who WE are, on pain of ...
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national news
Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.


Wed Jan 07 02:56:40 -0600 2009
Experts: Crosswinds a factor in Denver air crash (AP)

Workers move the wreckage of Continental Airlines flight 1404 to a site outside a Continental hangar at Denver International Airport in Denver on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009 from the ravine where it crash landed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. Aviation safety experts said Tuesday, Jan. 6, strong crosswinds likely were a factor in an accident last month that sent a Continental Airlines jet into a bone-jarring veer off a Denver runway and across open, snowy fields before it came to a halt and caught fire. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - It was very windy when a Continental Airlines jet was destroyed while trying to take off in Denver last month, leading aviation safety experts to cite crosswinds as a likely factor in the accident.


Wed Jan 07 02:17:38 -0600 2009
Boy's 1999 disappearance raises questions, regrets (AP)

This age progression image provided by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children shows a simulation of what Adam Herrman might look like at the age of 21. No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam disappeared from the Towanda mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents. But the biggest mystery may be why no one reported him missing until nearly a decade later. (AP Photo/The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children via The Wichita Eagle)AP - No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam Herrman disappeared from the mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents.


Wed Jan 07 03:30:13 -0600 2009