by Justin Cox | Jul 19, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
If you’re a sadist and enjoy seeing someone squirm with discomfort, I invite you to watch me suffer through a business meeting. In such a setting, one discovers I take on the desperate actions of a fish snatched out of the sea. Flailing around, eyes bulging with...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 18, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
A decorative pillow in the hotel lobby brought a quick pause, an easy smile and the iPhone snapshot posted here. It read, “I’d agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” Its wittiness speaks to how sure we often are about some matters — and our eagerness to win...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 17, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre filed a lawsuit for reparations and the rebuilding of the Greenwood District. Caroline Wall, an Oklahoma judge, dismissed it and don’t you ever forget it. The court ruled that Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher and...
by Carol A. Brown | Jul 17, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Realistic fiction is a literary genre that best explores the emotional outcomes in the lives of others. A good story leads the reader to see two things: mirrored reflections of themselves, or a window into the hurts, pain and joys of others. Both perspectives are...
by Wyatt Moyer | Jul 14, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Everything in my great grandfather’s house is old and antique. Even a simple red sharpie I picked up feels like it has been around longer than I have. It still proudly bears the name “Sanford’s Sharpie” instead of just “Sharpie.” The walls of the house are...
by Mitch Randall | Jul 13, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
You may not believe me after reading my latest columns, but there was a day when I was a flaming fundamentalist. Enrolled in Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1993, I arrived on campus between the theological and ideological mindsets...
