I first met my little sister Sue on a bright pretty September day in Centrahoma. The day was perfect and pretty. My mom surprised me that morning when she told me to go play with my best friend Letha Mae who lived just down the street.

I want to commend council members Lynn Lantz, Julie West and Ron Wiseman for their support in appointing a transition team that will work to make the change from Aldermanic to City Manager in the coming months. To wait until the last minute would be a disaster and we are thankful for their vision.

Can COVID-19 Cause Shingles? Dear Savvy Senior, How effective is the shingles vaccine and what is the CDC recommendation for getting it? My older brother and sister, both in their fifties, got COVID a few months back followed by shingles.

I’m so old I remember a world before cell phones. A world where, if you were away from home and needed to make a call, you used an ancient invention called the “pay phone.”

My dad spoke in my ear Sunday while I was in church. In one sense this is not an unusual occurrence. Dad had a tremendous positive influence on me. I say “had” because Dad passed away several years ago.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. In a few weeks baseball’s Spring Training is supposed to start.

It was a warm soft summer night in 1947 and I was walking home. I saw 5 of my peers sitting in front of the Main Café. Just sitting there. Their feet somewhat appropriately in the gutter. I detoured and joined them. I noticed one thing different though.

I’m not very good with numbers. That’s why I went to law school. They told me there wouldn’t be any math. But accountants know about numbers and when my accountant, Mike Bell, talks numbers, I listen carefully.

Sometimes you just can’t win. I remember long ago when I was in the Navy. We had just completed a port call in Yokosuka, Japan. Its duration was two weeks but the first day we pulled out I saw this real long line of sailors on the hanger deck.

The time for New Year’s Resolutions is past, but it is never too late to share some thoughts about how to improve the quality of our lives, no matter which birthday we have or will celebrate. I can’t even keep up with what I am supposed to do TODAY, much less maintain order for an entire year.