Culture
Oklahoma’s secret society of ‘better angels’
"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable...
‘Built for this community’: New Homeland opens in northeast OKC
People flooded the new Homeland store Wednesday to celebrate the opening day of the first full-sized supermarket in northeast Oklahoma City since 2019.
The neighboring...
It’s official, college costs an arm and a leg
Metaphorically speaking, college costs an arm and a leg. While it hasn't quite literally come to that yet, I expect a limb-exchange program soon...
‘Don’t let weeds grow on my grave’: Poems on Gower Memorial Cemetery
The Gower Memorial Cemetery, in Edmond, is a living testimony to a family’s compassion that crossed racial barriers.
The cemetery of more than 500 plots...
Salli Denner, 19, set to soar (with help from a few angels)
Her move to college was three days away. Freshman-to-be Salli Denner had packed up her black Jeep Wrangler and was headed to Norman — no...
‘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...
‘Gray days are the hardest’: a pandemic diary
4.21.20
Norman
Gray days are the hardest.
On days when the sun shines, we are out walking, dogs on leashes, mothers and dads pushing strollers, helmeted kids...
‘How long did it take you to make that?’
This week, I had the overwhelming urge to post this picture I found of Jim Carey and Nicholas Cage enjoying art. I can't imagine...
Fleeing Oklahoma, teachers could ‘Fall-in’ the Red River
The Red River Bridge Corporation wanted to keep profiting from a toll bridge that carried U.S. 75 and U.S. 69. In 1931, the Texas...
Fed up with feminism, ready to be a human being
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — I am done with feminism.
Done. Done. Done.
And now that I’m technically working for “free” until 2016 thanks to the...