Tuesday, September 1, 2015
400,000 Pounds Of Gefilte Fish
I try to keep up on what is going on in the news...really I do, but a lot of it is beyond me. My Auntie Bess (yes the one mentioned in my series on my Oklahoma Family ) would have really taken off on this piece of Hillary's emails released to the public by the State Department. In a March 5, 2010,...
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Monday, August 31, 2015
Sabbatical With A Capital S
I do love my current writing job I have taken on-- the story of my Oklahoma Family I started it a month ago ( Go to 1. Oklahoma Rocking for the beginning) I don't want to quit. I have no desire to travel the world. I'm just kind of exhausted, and I don't really like what it is doing to me. What's it...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
27. The Roaring Twenties
When Ben saw Ollie cry over the photo, he had a fleeting desire to go to Kansas City and find Hursel. But, he knew how impossible that would be. He knew that until his son was ready to come home, he would not be found. In fact, Slim had already left K.C. From a copy of the morning news of the Kansas...
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Friday, August 28, 2015
26. They Call Me Slim
The first couple of years, they called him "Kid." But time brought physical growth, strength of character, and a knowledge of how to survive on the circuit. Before long, they dropped the "Kid" and settled on "Slim." He met a one-time pugilist along the way at one of the Hobo Camps. He had the...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
25. Ollie Cried
The explosion at the asphalt mine in the Kiamichi Mountains of Pushmataha County at the end of 1910 made for somber holiday preparations for the Christmas season. The town of Antlers was more quiet than was normal, and the churches better attended on Sundays and at prayer meetings. Families whose...
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