OkieMan

What if they stayed?

Eighty-years ago today my mom and dad with two of my dad’s siblings along with my older sister and brother left Carter County Oklahoma. All were headed for California in hopes of a new life. Some found their new life and some returned to Oklahoma. Luckily my dad found steady and meaningful work in southernContinue reading “What if they stayed?”

From progress to regress

Metamorphosis.I don’t understand why some people change for the worse. Changing from helpful egalitarians into hardened separatist. Separatist who go out of their way to exclude people they don’t agree with. Which leads me to ask why are Republicans becoming more nefarious and leaning towards duplicity? It’s like a dark cloud of evil hiding theirContinue reading “From progress to regress”

Just Potato.

Call me old and stuck but…Knowing that the gender police have arrived is unsettling. But first let me offer this narrative:Back when I was about age eight my dad and I were wandering about in the grocery store while my mom was mulling over what was needed from the butcher counter. So my dad andContinue reading “Just Potato.”

Who the heck said that?

The little Town Church in the vale.Many years ago and back in the early 1950s our family regularly attended a small fundamentalist church in East L A on Olympic Boulevard just across the street from the Baptist church. Our parents insisted we siblings must attend church without any excuse or resistance.Next-door to our little churchContinue reading “Who the heck said that?”

From the deep freeze.

Freezing my butt off.At this writing it is minus 13-degrees here in the Okie nation. The faucets are dripping, the thermostat is set at 67-degrees, all window blinds are shut tight, the attic access is wedged open to allow heat in the attic where the water heater is(not sure why it’s up there), a bigContinue reading “From the deep freeze.”

Hop right on it.

Well hey! I didn’t get my Valentine’s Day chocolate bunny. Where’s my chocolate bunny? I always get a chocolate bunny on Valentine’s Day. And certainly not one of those cheap-o hollow body bunnies. Instead I diffidently want a real solid all chocolate Valentine bunny. Where is it?

NoSir. Not me.

Reasons I do not like president’s day.I do not and will not celebrate president’s day of the few dorky presidents from our American past. Not celebrating presidents known to be blathering jerks. Herbert Hoover was one. A lame conservative who had a hydro-electric dam named after him. Richard Nixon a certified and registered crook. TooContinue reading “NoSir. Not me.”

Drop those gloves! Now!

Sheba, my phantom spouse, is a card carrying officer of the local Fashion Police. She came up behind me and shouted ‘FREEZe!’ “Put those gloves down, NOW!” She brought to my attention I was putting on brown gloves. So, I replied. She sternly instructed, brown gloves do not go with a black overcoat. But IContinue reading “Drop those gloves! Now!”

I like Nuts and Chews

Yes, I’d like that.If you really want to be my Valentine a one pound box of See’s candy would prove your fascination for me. Otherwise don’t bother. Yes a rectangular one pound box of Nuts and Chews to be specific. But if you have only a one pound box of See’s soft centers, that wouldContinue reading “I like Nuts and Chews”

Pay to eat food?

To go where no one had gone before.Peggy, my oldest sister was our cuisine and eating out scout. Once she was in junior high and high school and earning her own money, she discovered foods we “Red Dirt Okies never heard of. Spaghetti, sub sandwiches, chicken fried rice, burgers and fries, and most of allContinue reading “Pay to eat food?”