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Sundaze poem: The Autumn Solstice
The Autumn Solstice
by Laura Romig
She didn't just shut the door to her life
She slammed it hard and walked into the light
Her past deleted with...
2018 for the kids: A children’s agenda in the new year
For those who are involved in politics and policy at the Oklahoma State Capitol, 2017 felt like the year that would never end. Special...
Sundaze: Scaramucci down right fierce to Priebus
Is it weird that, after reading the bizarre interview the president's new director of communications, Anthony Scaramucci, gave with the New Yorker this past week,...
Letter: Kavanaugh hearings show flaw in branches of government
To the editors:
The U.S. Constitution, that much valued paper used as a weapon of convenience to hit the opposing party with but not much...
Sundaze: Hot summer love
With Oklahoma temperatures tickling triple digits, NonDoc has devoted its last two Sundaze poems to the topic of ardor for the opposite sex. Here's to...
Sundaze: ‘Longing to bud’
Longing to bud
by James Coburn
Blue in faint light
Your warmth lingers beyond
cold night, so familiar to sky.
Remember the gardens there,
an undergrowth to collect our days.
This...
Why I watched the skinny repeal vote on health care
Just not having health insurance right there, that’s a really horrible thing to face — that's practically suicidal as you approach middle age. What are...
Education reform: Title I funds only part of the solution
I described the complexities of school funding and why the simplistic criticisms of local and state education systems are unjustified in a previous post here...
Thank God winter solstice is here with more sunlight
In case you didn't realize it this past weekend, winter kind of sucks. Good news prevails, however, as today is the winter solstice.
What does...
Of bookstores and ignorance: ‘How do you know?’
I read it in a letter to the editor of what used to be called a “journal of opinion” — a letter concerning an...