Hope and the Super Bowl

  I am not a sports fan, but sports is the life breath for many people. However, I decided, since most of my family would be glued to the television screen watching the Super Bowl that year, I’d at least give the game a peek. Then, of course, I wanted to know who won, so […]

Red Shamrocks and Courage

Red Shamrocks and Courage

It lay there, scattered on the ground. Shattered red leaves were strewn across the dirt and all that was left was a tangle of roots with one or two drooping leaves still hanging on. I carefully dug it out, put it in a pot, and carried it into the kitchen. Now, it rests on the […]

Long Ago Teens

Long Ago Teens

It was a different time. My teenage years were almost unbelievably different when compared to the lives of today’s teens. Were those days better? Do I see them through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia? Those days, so long ago, were far from perfect; however, there was an innocence and a wide-eyed wonder that seems gone […]

The Joy of Music

The Joy of Music

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” Victor Hugo.  Music is a universal language, joining people of all nationalities who cannot speak or understand any language but their own. Music, we all understand and respond to.  As the seven junior and high school choirs presented their annual […]

Peggs Tornado

Peggs Tornado

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 […]

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

Can you imagine the joy of the Lord’s followers on that first Easter morning? The stone had been rolled away. The tomb was empty. Death could not hold the Son of God. He is risen. He is risen indeed! Because of Easter, hope stirs within us and our spirits open to the magnificence of new life. Because […]