When the jonquils bloom in the spring, I think of her–my sister Helen. Maybe it’s because of her March birthday or that, like the flowers, my sister was cheerful and welcoming. Helen was a person who made the world better and brighter, simply by being there. If someone had a problem, she did her best […]
Dec 3, 2025
Common Sense
By · 2 Comments
I often long for the common sense wisdom of my dad. His children always knew his view of things and, we knew he was right. Surprising, what a sense of security that gave. I wonder what he’d say about the many, many changes I see in life today. I think, maybe he would have nothing […]
Nov 22, 2025
Sixty-two Years Ago
By · 2 Comments
There aren’t too many of us left who actually remember that awful day, November 22, 1963. I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, had been shot. I was standing at the front of a classroom of second graders, […]
May 25, 2025
Remembering
By · Leave a Comment
Americans have fought in many wars since the Revolution and freedom has exacted a high price. Many lives have been given, much blood shed, many hearts broken down through the years. To me, the most incomprehensible and divisive of all the wars was the Civil War. I am not convinced that it was inevitable. It tore […]
May 25, 2025
Remembering
By · Leave a Comment
Americans have fought in many wars since the Revolution and freedom has exacted a high price. Many lives have been given, much blood shed, many hearts broken down through the years. To me, the most incomprehensible and divisive of all the wars was the Civil War. I am not convinced that it was inevitable. It tore […]
May 3, 2025
Looking Back
By · 2 Comments
This is the second and final installment of my May 5, 1985 Daily Press article about the tornado which destroyed Peggs, Oklahoma on May 2, 1920. In 1920, Walter Neel lived with his parents, brothers and sisters on the Gid Morgan farm, two and a fourth miles southeast of Peggs. The storm went a mile […]
