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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...
‘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...
‘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...
The beat is on: Meet NonDoc’s new education reporter
I owe my passion for journalism to my public education. When I joined my high school newspaper staff in 2010, we we worked under...
Absentee voting enters the danger zone
I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy, so I have looked at every angle trying to convince myself that absentee voting won’t turn into a...
New depths of boredom after a year with COVID
We have had a year with COVID, huh?
I can hardly wrap my head around it, frankly, and if you were to ask me what...
Students need more than a citizenship test to prepare for civic engagement
The recently overhauled social studies curriculum standards set out the lofty vision that Oklahoma schools should “develop informed, competent, and responsible citizens who are politically...
Quik Trip in OKC means delicious competition
Why does Tulsa have two Whole Foods stores anyway, while Oklahoma City only has one? Perhaps the answer lies in the aisles of a...
Despite optimism and high expectations, 2021 bombed
I've always hated New Year's Eve.
As a kid growing up under the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation, New Year's seemed like a perfect...
However you say it, omicron variant tests our resolve
I think it might be pronounced "contagious," actually.
No matter how you say it, the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is here, and it's...