Some weeks are just… off

Some weeks are calm, productive and suspiciously well-behaved.Other weeks feel like every appliance, vehicle, animal and bodily function in your household got together and planned a group project.This was one of those weeks. My husband’s car started leaking gas.

Home Grown

How Plants Cope with Heat Oklahoma is known for long stretches of triple-digit temperatures, drying winds, and intense sunshine. While gardeners seek shade and air conditioning, plants have evolved in order to survive these challenging conditions.

Stock Market Insights

Stock Market Outlook for the Second Half of 2026: Where Investors Should Focus In junior high, our school dances were in the cafeteria. The girls all danced in the middle, and the guys would lean against the walls, hoping a girl would dance with them at the next slow song.

Supporting the Space Shuttle’s First Mission

As I look back from where I am in retirement, after spending thirty-one years supporting and leading testing at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), I can reflect on one event I feel especially proud to have been part of.

Adventures with Allie

My son turned 1. I knew his first birthday would make me sentimental. I expected a few tears, maybe a dramatic stare out the window, maybe a moment where I looked at him and wondered how time had the absolute nerve to keep moving.

Home Grown

July Horticulture Tips Vegetable Garden – Refer to OSU Factsheet HLA-6009: Fall Gardening • Start planning your fall vegetable garden.Lawn – Refer to OSU Factsheet HLA-6420: Lawn Management in Oklahoma • Brown patch disease of coolseason grasses can be a problem.

Home Grown

Harvest Tomatoes Early to Outsmart Garden Pests Few gardening activities are more satisfying than picking a perfectly ripe tomato from your own garden. However, you aren’t the only one waiting for that tomato to ripen.

’Twas the Night Before the Fourth in the Cimarron Valley

’Twas the night before the Fourth in the Cimarron Valley, And all through the towns, folks were ready to rally.The flags were all hung from the porches with care, Waving proud in the warm Oklahoma air.

Adventures with Allie

The Fourth of July has always smelled like something.When I was little, it smelled like desert dust and hot pavement. It smelled like sunscreen, smoke and whatever kind of trouble children could find when they were handed sparklers, firecrackers and far too much freedom.

Adventures with Allie

Oklahoma’s closed primary system is not just some insidebaseball election rule most people can afford to ignore.It is a real problem, and it needs to be fixed.The usual defense is that voters should not be able to help choose another party’s nominee. Democrats should not pick Republican candidates.