Most of us with significant life experience understand that all we hold dear can totally change 180 degrees for good, bad, better or worse in the twinkling of an eye. That concept also applies to worldly events and the fate of nations as any student of history will vouch for such dates as July 4th,…
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Waking up in the SEC
Times are definitely a’changin’. In summer 2024 we find ourselves easing into an era where many things may remain the same while simultaneously become quite different. Yes, Oklahoma Football will still be the most popular sports attraction along this stretch of Old Route 66. However, its affiliation just made a huge move to arguably the…
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BTO: Still taking care of business
Not all that long ago, a year and twenty days from June 22nd to be exact, the latest version of the first multiple hit band founded by Winnipeg native Randy Bachman played the Osage Casino Skyline Event Center. Speaking of The Guess Who, it may as well have been the same logo adorning the stage…
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Absurdity in a surreal election year
Self-governance, the unique and revered earmark of the American nation, has undergone some dark and bizarre periods throughout its history. It has also been visited upon by some very unsavory characters whose public conduct run the gamut from marginally ethical to outright criminal. The concept that America is a nation of laws and not of…
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Heart and Cheap Trick grace the BOK Center
Two Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees made a tour stop Saturday evening, May 4th, at Tulsa’s BOK Center. Half a century is a long time to make music and define success in the recording industry and both of the venue’s visitors have been in the business much longer than that. What’s more, most…
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Watching it all from a distance
It is very easy for caring and compassionate individuals to lose themselves in the affairs of people and things they love. Their concern is often not limited to close loved ones, businesses and hobbies. Volunteering for and giving of self for the betterment of nation, state, community, church, service organization or involvement in any group…
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America’s bane of binary choice
Presidential election years have always been a time of a months-long media circus featuring all manner of campaign soundbytes of pandering, insults and over-the-top hyperbolic rhetoric in candidate ads, stump speeches, caucuses and conventions. Despite its pitfalls and occasional shortcomings, the thing that has kept America electing its leaders via democratic process from its beginning…
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Faith in the growing number of “nones”
Here along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66, the characteristic of religiosity commensurate with the values of the political majority comes with the territory. I can personally attest that a strong religious atmosphere in Tulsa was the norm of my childhood and adolescence. Even as a young boy, the open competition among the…
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Sounding the call to serve once again
Last month when I signed up for a job to be a poll worker there were positions available for some 400 applicants to serve the needs of all the Election Day voting precincts in Tulsa County. For there to be that great a need for so many is a fairly new phenomenon and one which…
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Looking back on Journal Volume 49 and 2023
As most regular readers know, this blog was established nine years ago as largely an extension of the Personal Daily Journal of Yours Truly. It has become a tradition during this, the last few hours of the calendar year to reflect on the twelve months gone by and recall fondly or not-so-much as the case…
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