Yep, it’s that time again, when we all take a look at our past years and cast our eyes forward to the future — which we suppose might be an improvement over the past. It’s Sunday afternoon as I sit down to write this which I will simply think of as my “New Years Column.”

Now that I am on the downhill slide toward celebrating 90 years on this earth, seems I come up with more advice for others. Not that I adhere to any or any of these suggestions, but some of them sounded like fun.

As we approach Thanksgiving, I realize how blest I have been over my life. Since high school on I have worked at jobs I really enjoy. I think we should be asking seniors “What do you love doing?” instead of “Where are you going to college?”

She smiled and said, “You probably don’t remember my son, Leo. He came home from school that day and told me he wanted to learn welding from his dad.

To Be or Not To Be To be or not to be. That was the question William Shakespeare posed once upon a time. That may well be the question that is put to the American people in this present hour. America and Americans are a “different” people in this world.

Darn, I’m older than dirt!! ….enjoy a little stroll down memory lane… Someone asked the other day,,,,,,,,,,,,,’What was my favorite fast food when growing up?’ We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up, I informed him, ‘All the food was “slow.’ ‘It was a place called home,’ I explained!

“Quote of the Week…..“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. But now my faculties are decaying, and it soon shall be that I cannot remember anything but the things that actually happened.

Wise Words from a Wise Man Tip of the hat to the Rev. Jesse Spurlock, former pastor at Highland Park Baptist Church in Midwest City, who provides food for thought in the weekly bulletin at the church where he pastored for 18 years.

Studies have shown that practicing gratitude makes for a better life. Positive emotions, better health, greater resilience, and stronger relationships all flow from practicing gratitude, according to Harvard Health Publishing.

Profound proclamations concerning life When you stand in front of a classroom of children for 57 years as I so enjoyably did, you encounter all sorts of questions, mostly about your personal life and sometimes about whatever topic we might have been discussing in class.