Now would be a good time to talk to the USDA Farm Service AgencyThis has not been a fun summer weather-wise. We all know that story ... heat domes, flash droughts, record temperatures and heat indexes...

Last week’s column “For the Dogs” meant I had a lot of applesauce left over. So, in order to get rid of it, I decided this week’s column would be all about applesauce. I doubled the muffin recipe, but...

10 Years Ago:Okmulgee County Pageant Director Wade Hall rode in the Miss America Parade alongside Miss Oklahoma.Coordinators Kim Morrison and Jeremy Pitts of Okmulgee-Okfuskee County Youth Services, a...

DEAR ABBY: Two years before he met me, my husband of four years did something I feel was morally repugnant: He solicited a prostitute. When he committed this act, he was going through a dark period in...

Just a Thought Sweet the SoundI was not well prepared for it, seeing my father in this state.Since my last in-person visit with him five months back, the relentless villain labeled mesothelioma had me...

Lost in the Dark - Can’t SeeI had a dream.And in this dream, I couldn’t see anything. I had never seen anything - ever. Everything was blackest night. Or maybe I was blind. I couldn’t tell, one way or...

Just a Thought Wrapped up in WonderSometimes songs speak to me so very powerfully. They often remind me of the glory of God. I love nature and at times the words of songs bring back memories of times ...

So last week, I made Chex mix for the column. The problem with that is I had to buy two different Chex cereals that we don’t eat as just cereal and I don’t need that much Chex mix in my life. So I tho...

It seems most of the places we have lived in the U.S.A. have had rattlesnakes there also. The states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and California all have rattlesnakes. In particular, California was a...

The Orpheum showed “The Butler” and the “The Conjuring.”The Okmulgee Catholic Community stepped up to help the Okmulgee Manna Day Program through the Salvation Army. Rev. Litwack delivered a check to ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband has, for years, felt the need to talk filthy and ask sexual questions of other women. It bothers me something terrible. He’s upset that I ruin his “fun,” and insists he isn’t hur...

Rumors of a coming planet-wide tech revolution had started buzzing. This world-altering phenomenon would soon catch fire, sweeping the planet with its lackluster tag … www… But ‘til then. While the wo...

If you’re familiar with the term ‘Elevator Speech,’ you know that sometimes we meet people who only have a few minutes to receive a briefing about our town. About the length of an elevator ride. So yo...

Can gene splicing and selective breeding help deal with heat stress in cattle?Sometimes you see a headline and just go “huh.”That happened to me today when I can across an article talking about breedi...

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Randall,” was a widower when we met. His wife, “Sylvia,” had passed away in November 2010. We got married in October 2015. I recently was shocked to discover that Randall has k...

Part 1 of 3With the recent release of the movie The Sound of Freedom, the conversation on the horror of human trafficking is growing. The movie, a dramatization, details one individual story, but does...

School is back in session as of this week for area kids. If your kids are like the kids I know, they come home starving. The recipes I share this week can be made over the weekend and prepackaged into...

With our first two children now college age and the years of our youngest seeming to pick up speed, a set of pivotal shifts - threshold moments - came pushing in. Leaving Africa felt surreal. Life as ...

High-speed internet is essential for home, business and agricultural needs, but estimates show that there are more than 298,000 unserved and underserved locations across Oklahoma. The good news is tha...

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my second wife for 10 years. Most everything is fine, but we have one area of conflict. It is regarding her daughter, my stepdaughter, who has grown from a cute littl...