Music forms a tapestry that serves as a backdrop of life. Of all the minutia that composes the composite of modern human identity, music often reveals much regarding a person’s history, character and personal disposition. Music has a unique way of touching the human soul, imprinting on the psyche association with other people, places, times…
Continue ReadingThe name of the city is spelled T-U-L-S-A
Wednesday was a very newsworthy day along this the most conservative stretch of the Mother Road. Our fair city had a visit from a GOP Presidential candidate and his former VP candidate water carrier. Other than their brief presence three miles around the corner and down the street from where I am sitting posting this,…
Continue ReadingGOP economic and foreign policy: World American Realignment (WAR)
When your only tool is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
Continue ReadingWinning Blue again in a sea of Red
The polls have closed in Oklahoma Senate District 34 (Owasso, Northeast Tulsa, Sperry, Skiatook, Turley, Collinsville) and the final vote tally in the Special Election went to the Democrat in the race, Owasso teacher and football coach J.J. Dossett! In a district that has been a GOP bastion since 1990, Senator-elect Dossett proved that a…
Continue ReadingCelebrating twenty years of Internet access
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Continue ReadingEmbracing the future: the outlook for 2016
We are off and running in the first week of 2016 and the future is upon us and in our face in this Presidential election year. So far the GOP front runner, the confident Donald Trump, has proclaimed the $2 million per week he is going to be spending on advertising as “probably a waste.” …
Continue ReadingSooners fall a Tiger short in the Orange Bowl
Sooner Magic seemed nowhere to be found in the second half as the Oklahoma Sooners finished their season in south Florida against the #1 ranked Clemson Tigers falling to them in the second consecutive bowl game, this time by a score of 37 to 17. After a competitive first half after which the Sooners led…
Continue Reading2015 year in review
As the hours tick by in anticipation of celebrating the New Year, I wax philosophical about the year gone by. I am thankful to be alive having survived the year and the daily hazards of an increasingly more dangerous World. I am also thankful for my association with those individuals and organizations that make my…
Continue ReadingMy human experience, Volume 41
As year’s end approaches this week it is time to reflect on not only this year which will soon be gone but all others in which we have lived and experienced being human. My final entry in my 2015 CE personal journal will be made on New Year’s Eve and will mark the end of Volume 41…
Continue ReadingLooking back on a watershed moment
What did you do in your youth? How did you spend your young adult years? When did you know you were finally a grown-up? What changed in you to validate the fact you were over that big hump, never to return to being a child? Three and a half decades ago this evening I confronted…
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