Dear journalists: Beware the return to normalcy
Something to consider in the wake of #BlackOutTuesday: I've noticed many people — from celebrities and everyday citizens to journalists and federal employees —...
Remember to put yourself in someone else’s shoes
(Editor's note: Mike Allen drew this installment of his weekly Sundaze comic on Saturday, May 30, as protests escalated across the country. As NonDoc...
Protest photography: Tears, trauma, party and problems
About 2 a.m. Monday, I crawled into bed and called it a day. And what a day it had been.
Sunday afternoon, I had photographed...
‘Their emotion is involved’: People protest police in OKC
When a long and tumultuous evening of protests against American police violence ended close to 3 a.m. in central Oklahoma City, more than a...
‘In love with being alive’: Essay winners age 15-18
What's the only thing better than winning an essay contest? How about winning it unanimously.
In the 15-18 age category for NonDoc's first spring essay...
‘Love alone together’: A pandemic diary
May 10, 2020
Yukon
Haddaway said it best: What is love?
Or maybe it’s Foreigner that said it best: “I want to know what love is.”
Regardless, it’s...
Them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong
After this past week, one has to wonder if Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto pen has any ink left in it. One after another, bills...
‘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...
Gridiron grit: My promise to NonDoc and Oklahoma
My high-school football coach used to tell our team, “Life is like football, and football is like life.”
At the time, it seemed like standard...
Write at home: Joining journalism back in Oklahoma
I spent 18 years of my life in the suburban not-quite-perfect bubble of Norman. I knew where to drive down Western Avenue for the...
