Commentary
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‘Things fall apart’: a pandemic diary
May 1, 2020
Oklahoma City
I’ll be honest with you: My life hasn’t changed much since the pandemic forced all of us to shelter inside and...
‘Love alone together’: A pandemic diary
May 10, 2020
Yukon
Haddaway said it best: What is love?
Or maybe it’s Foreigner that said it best: “I want to know what love is.”
Regardless, it’s...
Write at home: Joining journalism back in Oklahoma
I spent 18 years of my life in the suburban not-quite-perfect bubble of Norman. I knew where to drive down Western Avenue for the...
Gridiron grit: My promise to NonDoc and Oklahoma
My high-school football coach used to tell our team, “Life is like football, and football is like life.”
At the time, it seemed like standard...
‘Quarantined in a lonely paradise’: A pandemic diary
April 16, 2020
Red Oak
Tomorrow marks the end of the fifth week that my husband Les and I have been in lockdown. Except for a...
Pour yourself an age and wisdom on the rocks
You may have seen some long lines surrounding certain businesses the past couple of days. In the "before pandemic" or "BP" age, these establishments...
Them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong
After this past week, one has to wonder if Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto pen has any ink left in it. One after another, bills...
‘In love with being alive’: Essay winners age 15-18
What's the only thing better than winning an essay contest? How about winning it unanimously.
In the 15-18 age category for NonDoc's first spring essay...
‘Their emotion is involved’: People protest police in OKC
When a long and tumultuous evening of protests against American police violence ended close to 3 a.m. in central Oklahoma City, more than a...
Protest photography: Tears, trauma, party and problems
About 2 a.m. Monday, I crawled into bed and called it a day. And what a day it had been.
Sunday afternoon, I had photographed...
