We constantly work with ideas. After all, they are flowers of the mind that bloom for those who think. Everything we see or touch was first an idea in someone’s mind. Even comic strips have produced f...

abandoned backstreet bed downtown mattress no place to sleep do better people An abandoned queen mattress rests next to a dumpster it was too large for in the alley between Oak Street and Wheeler Aven...

According to a recent poll, 75% of Oklahomans are in favor of eliminating the state's 4.5% grocery sales tax. That is more than those favoring cutting the state's income tax. So as with most things in...

We work all our lives for what we consider important. And while we work we do those things that seem necessary to keep up appearances-and if we had to we cut corners on peace and joy and time with tho...

When someone provokes us we need to ask ourselves why should we allow it? We are free to hear foolish things or to ignore them. Why waste precious time getting back at someone not worth our time? Don’...

Recently, far too often, our news seemed to be filled with murder-suicides. A parent killing a spouse or ex-spouse and their children. The murder of a child is an event I can’t grasp. One is far too m...

During recent weeks, local Tulsa television newscasts seem to come wrapped in yellow crime scene tape. Real crimes in which real people have been hurt. Now, I do enjoy a number of the Law & Order-type...

June is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, a time to encourage national conversation about brain health and raise awareness to improve health care outcomes. Over six million Americans are currently living w...

Just Thinkin’ Family gatherings are memorable portions of our Holidays. Memorable good, not memorable bad. I don’t mean to suggest family gatherings should be avoided but it does seem that tables of r...

Changes must be made Dear Editor, I am a resident of the city of Sallisaw. I’ve lived here for many years. I live on a fixed income from Social Security. I bearly make it from month to month. I always...

We have been told for hundreds of years thal something drastic is going to happen-but few really take it serious. Yes, we have been told that, but everything stays the same. Well it may seem so but in...

Just Thinkin’ In ordinary times, I approach New Year’s celebrations focused on the seasonally consistent themes of renewal and redemption. Promises of fresh beginnings float buoyantly in the cold Dece...

We frequently think that when circumstances around us change, then we will be free to change. But Henry David Thoreau told us a long time ago that things do not change, we have to change. lf we are bo...

Somehow the snow is a little like Christmas. We can expect it. We can listen to the television weather and expect it. But still, when it comes it’s like a gift - a wonderful unwrapped gift - because i...

When we are told to face reality, it is assumed that someone knows what reality is. Is it something to be seen or touched? More reality exists on the invisible than all we see put together. Facing rea...

This Week in County History 25 Years Ago From Dec. 28, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times — If convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was ever at Elohim Cit, “I would remember it,” said ...

If you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping already, we’re down to the final two days. And while you may have already found this year’s yuletide gift-giving comes with a higher price tag than a ye...

Just Thinkin’ Events of recent weeks left me lingering in a more tender place. Robert Browning’s quote, “Come grow old with me, the best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made.” I...

Mullin It Over Isaiah 9:6 tells us: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Fa...

Mullin It Over The end of each year allows us to reflect on what is behind us and look forward to what is to come. As we begin this new chapter, thank you for putting your trust in me. It’s a responsi...