My sister, who was born during the Space Age, told me a story one time about the Rocket Slide at La Puente Park in Southern California. The oldest of four kids, my dad took her there one time to play, and she never stopped wanting to go back. Months or maybe years...
Disks on Lincoln Boulevard (Pictures of Public Art in Oklahoma)
Huge Disks on Lincoln Boulevard are Public Art There are four mammoth-size disk planted in soft green berms outside the Office of State Finance in Oklahoma City. They form a quartet of sculptures and serve as a monument to Oklahomans, past and present. Three of the...
The Best People Ever
KOSU Commentary They say if you look for the bad expecting to find it, you surely will. Over the years, I've worked with a lot of engineers. They all loved the fact that I loved how smart they were and I loved the fact they loved the stories I wrote about them. They...
Remember Tonya: Oklahoma Teen Murdered in 1990
Ninnekah is a Choctaw word. It means night or darkness. On a dark night in Ninnekah, under the Choctaw sky, Tonya Rodgers called her boyfriend from a payphone. It was the last phone call she ever made. That evening in the spring of 1990, she was raped and murdered by...


