Short walk of independence

Mid-summer, 2002 was nothing particularly special but for some reason memories from that time have been flooding my brain more often than not.

For all the tables we shared

How do you say goodbye to a restaurant?That feels like a strange question until the restaurant is Mugsy’s, and you realize how much of your family’s life happened around its tables.Mugsy’s Grubhouse in Yale burned this weekend. The building is a total loss.

Home Grown

From turnips to pumpkins: The story behind Halloween’s familiar face Each October, pumpkins can be found on porches, in store displays and at fall festivals. Some wear cheerful smiles with a few teeth missing, while others glow with frightening faces.

How to save the garden before the first frost

The first frost has a way of arriving like an unexpected relative.You knew it was coming eventually.

Adventures with Allie

Once, before there were cities full of glass, traffic and neon signs, pigeons belonged to cliffs. They nested in cracks high above the ground, where the wind moved cleanly and the world below was wide and wild.

Adventures with Allie

Cushing was barely a town when somebody decided it needed a newspaper.I think that says something about newspapers. And I think it says something about Cushing. The town was incorporated in 1894. By 1895, the Cushing Herald was already coming off the press.There weren’t paved streets.

For the Children

Oklahoma faces growing childcare concerns in 2027 As Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) continues our series on navigating the policy changes by state agencies to reduce error rates and potential fraud, let’s focus this week on childcare.We appreciate Oklahoma Human Services, or OKDHS,...

Why Life Insurance Matters for Oklahomans

Debunking the Biggest Myths Life is unpredictable, and none of us wants to imagine a future where our loved ones struggle financially if something happens to us. That’s exactly why life insurance exists.

Everyone Has a Megaphone

Apparently, America's truck drivers are going on strike.

How to take, send and save a photograph on a smartphone

There was a time when taking a photograph required a camera, a roll of film and enough patience to wait a week before learning that somebody had closed his eyes.Now the telephone in your pocket can take hundreds of photographs and send them to Aunt Margaret before everybody has stopped...