Just Thinkin’ I keep my Rand McNalley Road Atlas in a basket beside my chair. Perhaps worse, I have 4 state-issued, state maps nearby, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. If a place is mentioned,...

A lady once told me that there are people who are green fruit, they hang around until time ripens them. It was her way of saying that undeveloped people are all along the way. If we will be patient th...

For more than 160 years, the Boys & Girls Clubs organization has offered mentorship and support for youth. They have grown to serve local communities across the country, and they have long brought a s...

We all know someone will find Jenkins’s cabin. Someday. Oh, it’s up there in those hills somewhere. We all know that. It’s become a friendly object of conjecture and speculation. No one living has see...

Blackgum Christian Union Church YES!!! CONTRARY TO POPULAR SCIENTIFIC BELIEF, MAN WALKED WITH AND SAW DINOSAURS!!! BELIEVE GOD’S HOLY WORD!! IT HAPPENED AS HE (GOD) SAID!!! THESE WORDS WEREN’T WRITTEN...

Sallisaw TOPS Monday, we had eight members weigh in. We had a net loss of 2.3 pounds. Way to go members! Donna had our best weight loss of 2.6 pounds. Great job, Donna! Again, we had four members sign...

Mullin’ It Over Mullin Oklahoma, as your Senator I am committed to bringing our state’s innovative, low-cost all-of-the-above energy solutions to the forefront of energy policy in America. Oklahoma ha...

I expect the upcoming legislative session, which begins Feb. 6, to be interesting, exciting and productive. Between the 149 legislators in the Oklahoma House and Senate, thousands of bills were filed ...

Ideas — how common they are and how little we pay attention to them. Yet, they are often planned in detail for us to accomlish something we might not be able to do alone. This is why meditation is so ...

Just Thinkin’ “History is written by the winners.” When I first heard this concept, I rejected it. I was more comfortable with the notion of historical truth. Now I believe the truth is that history i...

Vian Nursing and Rehab Hello and welcome to our news. It’s been another busy week at the home and we are all anticipating the big snows that are supposed to head our way. Residents have plans to make ...

There was Steve, our resident cowboy, sitting at the round table in the Mule Barn truck stop, doodling on paper. Other members of the world dilemma think tank gravitated to Steve’s table. Steve appear...

Chief Chat Many decades before Oklahoma became a state, the Cherokee Nation was building public infrastructure on this land, ranging from roads and schools to the oldest public building in the state, ...

Blackgum Christian Union Church LET YOUR WORK BE WHOLE HEARTEDLY FOR THE LORD!!! PUT HIM FIRST IN YOUR LIFE AND ALL THINGS WILL FALL IN PLACE!!! FOLLOW GOD THE CREATOR!!! Colossians 3:1-17 1If ye then...

Vian Nursing and Rehab Hello once again and Happy New Year. As I mentioned before we have started crockpot creations and our first recipe was crockpot bread pudding. It was not only easy, but it was d...

Blackgum Christian Union Church DO YOU KNOW: BITTER AND SWEET WATER CANNOT COME OUT OF THE SAME HOLE!!! YET—THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO CALL THEMSELVES “CHRISTIANS” WHO CURSE UP A STORM!!! THIS SHOULDN’...

Down at the sale barn Saturday, the think tank had coagulated there with coffees to go. Doc and Dud had their dogs with them, while Bert and Dewey and Steve went stag. Dud tried to start a conversatio...

Chief Chat I am extremely proud that one of the first bills that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2023 was the Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act. This law, named after my friend and C...

Easy Pasta Dishes I figured this week I would use some easy recipes that wouldn’t cost much to make. While rice also works as a cheap meal, I concentrated my efforts on pasta. Rice leaves me hungry ag...

THE IS NO BETTER FRIEND THAN ONE WHO WOULD LAY DOWN THEIR LIFE FOR YOU!!! JESUS CHRIST DID THIS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE FIRST ADAM TO THE LAST ADAM!!! HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU MAY KNOW!!! PRAISE...