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DEAR ABBY: My husband is desperate for women’s attention, and I’m sure he’d cheat on me the instant he had the chance. We have been together for 12 years. When we met, he was 24 and I was 31.
Read moreOften, when we discuss health insurance, we focus mainly on physical health benefits for operations, hospital visits or medication and don’t mention another important component of well-being: mental health. More than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Around the same percentage of Oklahomans (almost 790,000 people) experience a mental illness every year. This is a topic I hope enters the conversation more, and I want Oklahomans to understand mental health parity and insurance coverage.
Read moreDEAR ABBY: We live in a retirement community. Many of our friends have hearing loss that ranges from slight to profound. While most of them have the money to travel the globe, they don’t invest in hearing aids, which confounds us.
Read moreOnce again, rumors persist this holiday season of a pernicious and evil campaign to cancel Christmas in Oklahoma’s public schools. In fact, I recently saw a social media post by our state superintendent pledging to protect Christmas (and guns?) in Oklahoma schools. As a former superintendent, I am thankful to hear this, and I am stepping forward as a fellow whistleblower to confirm that the plot to cancel Christmas in Oklahoma schools is much worse than anyone ever imagined. The ugly truth: your local school officials secretly canceled Christmas decades ago.
Read moreSUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023
Read moreTHE LIGHTEN’ BUG STORY…SHINE Last night as I woke up at 2AM to go to the bathroom, I didn’t turn on a light. I only had a night light. I noticed a “shiny” object on the floor. I thought it was a shadow caused by the night light, but it was too shiny. I imagined it moved, but then again it was 2 AM and I was sleepy, and it couldn’t be moving, could it?
Read moreFRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2023
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