Students camping in Gundyville, ensuring a good spot in the line for Bedlam.
https://nerdexp.com/resogun/ 1. The participation in this week’s “Gundyville” camp out was huge. Gundyville is a designated area on the North side of the stadium where students vie for the best spots in line at the first come, first served ticket gate. Even bigger was the line of students to get in the game. But the best part? No fights, no pushing, no shoving, and no hassles. The pre-game mass simply waited their turn and eventually all entered the stadium with time to spare before kick-off. Two thumbs up, students!
Students waiting to get into the game.
https://oregonsurgicalwellness.com/lymphedema-prevention/ 2. The OSU Defense played most likely their best game of the entire season. I was personally empowered just by being in the stands watching the defensive magic. A serious game-changing event pulled off by the defensive group happened when Jamie Blatnick scooped up a fumble and took it down to the one yard-line. The celebration in the stands lasted for several plays past that moment. (See highlights video, 1:24 time-stamp).
"...Above all, this is a book to be shared by parents with their children. Gunnar Dybwad, Director, Child Study Association of America."
https://killmigraine.com/newsevents/Editor’s Note – 12/6/2011 ~ Originally published last week, this post was the first installment of what I hoped to be a Christmas story each day for 25 days through Christmas. Unfortunately, I’ve worked all weekend to try scanning the pages of stories while avoiding tearing the book up. The book is too old and I’m damaging it for this series. So, in order to keep the book, I have to give up the series. I’m sorry about that. If I find a way to utilize the book without cracking the spine completely up, I’ll try again. Thanks, RDK
Order Clonazepam Online(Originally published the last week of November, 2011) Editor’s note -True story: I’ve had this post waiting as a “draft” since December, 2010. I can’t tell you how many times I had to try scanning this book to get it right! ~ RDK
Order Prednisone For Sale This is a 1954 Whitman Publishing Company “Giant Book” and was “planned for the whole family’s Christmas pleasure. The stories and poems have been selected by the Children’s Book Committee of the Child Study Association to the meet the many interests within a family group.”
go As young children, my brother and I were read Christmas stories from this book. Then, we read the stories on our own. Yellowed and cracking, the pages are in really rough shape, and the spine has been reinforced by thick fabric-based tape.
https://lovetheonlything.com/content/ Since today is December 1st, I thought I would write a short daily series on 25 of the stories within this book. Some may be funny, some may be literary analysis, and some may be reflective. But all of them will be written immediately after I re-read a selection from my childhood, some 40 years ago.
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Well, I’m already smitten.
Reading this story was like listening to the dialogue and vernacular of a Shirley Temple movie, or perhaps a family television show from the 50s and 60s.
There are rainbows in the sky, conversations are optimistic, and there’s always a moral.
Are you good at giving directions? A lot depends on the orientation of the person you’re giving directions to. That’s my experience.
Are you good at receiving direction? I have given perfectly good travel instructions and clear directions to family members and I knew at the time that they weren’t getting it. My wife and I are very different direction receivers. I’m visual and she is linear; I can picture movement and she can follow the steps. Both ways can work.
In western Oklahoma you can say, “Go down to the intersection, drive a half mile west, then go three miles north. You’ll see a big-ole, green mailbox. Turn back east and it’s about a quarter mile up the dirt road.” And that works, if the person knows their directions — north from south.
If you’re in Apache, Oklahoma you know that 13 miles west and 14 miles north is Carnegie. Growing up I gained orientation to travel by asking, “How many miles is it?” I could figure my travel time by number of miles. But that changed once I became a ‘city-guy’. I’ve traded reference to miles for Continue reading Know Your Directions→
Vince Orza has truly done it all and he is the type of person that I aspire to be. For years Orza called television home and then eventually took a job teaching. In the meantime, he ran for governor of Oklahoma, became the Dean of Business at Oklahoma City University and opened up a chain of restaurants. Eventually his career would come full circle and he would step back under the bright lights to save a dying television station.
If his lifetime of careers is not impressive enough, in this week’s video blog, just listening to Vince Orza is sure to enthrall you. His voice comes easy, much like you would expect from anyone working in television, but what may be surprising are his values on life and the advice by which he lives by.
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I spend my days talking about marriage, divorce, family strengthening strategies, and child-well-being. I can spout research and trends, and articulate the many factors attributed to changing family dynamics. I’ve seen firsthand the complex challenges low-income families and single parents face in trying to make ends meet and help their children belie the odds. Let me tell you – it isn’t pretty out there.
I do all of this as a part of my job, which I love, but some days I feel like a fish swimming upstream. It’s easy for the stories and statistics to fuse together in my head and settle into a discouraging presence in my heart. This isn’t altogether a bad thing, because the nagging concern I feel certainly motivates me to plug ahead and work hard to implement programs and strategies which help couples and individuals achieve their family goals. And, even though I hear some tough stories without a happy ending, I’m privy to an equal number of revelations by couples who admit to feeling hopeful for the first time in weeks, months, or even years. Hope is a powerful emotion; without it, they will most certainly fail. With hope, however, amazing things can happen.
Another bright spot for me and something that adds to my own feelings of hope is the launch of the “Oklahoma’s Most Inspiring Couples” campaign. For the past three years, we have worked with a media partner to conduct a statewide search for couples who have shown commitment to their marriages in a significant way – have triumphed through adversity, endured through sickness and health, or otherwise inspired friends and family with their support of one another or zeal for life. Just when I start to feel like there are no couples to serve as role models for hard work and enduring friendship, the “Oklahoma’s Most Inspiring Couples” campaign reminds me that long-lasting and healthy marriages ARE possible.
It just so happens that this week is the launch of our new campaign, so what better way to kick it off than to share some information with those who care about Oklahoma and Oklahomans – you! If you’ve been inspired by an Oklahoma couple, Continue reading Where Have All the Great Marriages Gone?→
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