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...
Real, lasting connections: Social media to the rescue?
FORT WORTH, Texas — As a child, I had learned to call four different states, “home” before settling in Springtown, Texas, at the age...
Important lessons from journalism school: Always check the weather
NORMAN — 7 a.m. alarm, snoozed; 7:15 a.m. alarm, snoozed; 7:30 a.m. alarm, snoozed.
By the time I rolled out of the too-firm bed in...
The home stretch: A perpetual tourist’s last semester in Oklahoma
STILLWATER — My childhood taught me how to be a professional tourist. By my freshman year of high school, we had packed up and...
College football fun dampened by COVID-19 risks
I fully admit: I'm probably one of those people. This college football season, the University of Oklahoma, as well as most other universities around...
‘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...
Reaction to new councilman shows Norman polarization
If you weren't aware, Norman has been pretty much anything other than united in 2020. A series of events this summer in Oklahoma's third-largest...
It wasn’t Neese: An allegory for owning your audio
So the dust has settled, and the primaries are finally over. Here in Oklahoma, there were some shake-ups for local offices and a particularly...
You’re doing fine in the red zone, Oklahoma
It's crunch time. We've come all this way, and now we're in the "red zone." As plenty of people around here know, the red...
Snail mail: Slugging it out at the U.S. Postal Service
Who had "political fight over the post office" for the month of August? I can't find it on my 2020 bingo card, and I...
