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...

Appreciation and pride in community Dear Editor, This past Saturday, Gore HS Football Team competed at the highest level in class A football in Oklahoma, the state championship game in Edmond. This ga...

So much that we call weakness is familiar habit. Habit rules around the clock – the way we eat, the way we sleep, the way we approach anything. Habit underlies our every action until we are not aware ...

The discussion surrounding the yetto- be-written county lodging tax proposal is bringing to the forefront some good questions and some distractions. You only need to look at our recent tax voting hist...

To hear the truth and to tap wisdom and knowledge is priceless-that is our privilege. Never admit defeat if true wisdom has not been sought for and used. None of us would know right from wrong if we t...

Loafing Around Did you grow up baking in the kitchen every December like I did? Now that I am an adult, I miss the family getting together to do that. Granny has passed away and Mom’s health is not su...

Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays should be a special time for families to be thankful for the many blessings they have received and for gathering together to enjoy each other. Sometimes we tend to ...

It seems we’ve gotten to the point that when the fourth week of November rolls around, our thoughts quickly shift from the gluttony of Thanksgiving to the shopping free-for-all that is Black Friday. A...

to hear a new sound push button, “wait” it tells me win for pedestrians A NEW TRAFFIC CONTROL CROSSWALK WAS RECENTLY INSTALLED AT THE CORNER OF OAK STREET AND CHEROKEE AVENUE IN SALLISAW GIVING PEDEST...

Christianity, capitalism and Constitution. God says, “THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.” Which means it’s the root that produces evil, all kinds of evil, and if greed for filthy lucre and lov...

This Week in County History — Sequoyah County Democrat, Nov. 24, 1922 From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago (From Nov. 23, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –Crime, overall...

As double dealing as the world seems at times, the whole thing is run on trust. We could not make it one day without that trust. From world leaders to the smallest thing we can buy at the grocery stor...