Body Dear Diary, Just moved to Oklahoma! Yee haw and what a wonderful place! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. It is beautiful. I’ve finally found my home. I love it here.

Body As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but hacking everyone off is a piece of cake. I’m responsible for what I say, now what you understand.

Body Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Families that Succeed The most important advice I ever received about raising a family was from a talk entitled “Families That Succeed” delivered by Dr.

Body The boy sure had learned some choice words, no doubt about it. In the school room, on the playground, and at home, he kept getting into trouble on a regular basis for his rather colorful way of expressing his thoughts and feelings.

Body Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Live like an Interrobang Several years ago I discovered a new punctuation mark: The “interrobang”.

Body The man had a heart attack. His cardiologist then told him he had to walk at least forty-five minutes daily, the rest of his life. So off he went, just like the mailman – rain, sleet, snow, or burning sun. Walking became a regular part of his days.

Body When you die, there are at least 10 things God WON’T ask you: 1. God won’t ask you what kind of car you drove.

Body This is a special tribute to those people who were born between 1930 and 1946 or those of you who might know or have known someone from this era: People born during this special time in our country (includes me, of course) are between 76 and 92 years old.

Body Here’s something I’ll bet you haven’t spent much time thinking about: how do you greet people? Or to put a finer point on the pencil, how do you greet family members?

Body Like so many of us, I have a lot of my family and friends’ birthdates in my phone’s calendar, and I have it set to notify me when a loved one’s birthday is on the horizon.