The calendar, and the quality of the air we breathe, insist it’s state fair season. The competition is great to watch, no matter what it is. You know, like trying to knock down a pile of cinder blocks...

Despite the boiling temperatures, hunters across Soonerland are ready for deer archery season, which opens Oct. 1 and runs through Jan. 15. Bear archery season will open in certain counties Oct. 1 thr...

“Throwin' money at the problem.” Have you heard that one? Me too. Have you heard this one, “Don’t give ’em any money. That will solve the problem.” Me either. Exactly how defunding Tulsa Public School...

Ol’ Max has been gone two years now. Well, dead, anyway. A life force like Max Evans, one of America’s greatest writers, is never really gone as long as people read his work. Max died two days before ...

Recently, far too often, our news seemed to be filled with murder-suicides. A parent killing a spouse or ex-spouse and their children. The murder of a child is an event I can’t grasp. One is far too m...

Oh, we could always just go ask Delbert Chin why he did it, but that would take all the fun out of it. You know. So we sat and sipped at the world dilemma think tank meeting of Everything Important do...

At first it just looked like every other pile that periodically appears just inside our backdoor. A closer look revealed shoulder pads secured inside a red practice jersey. A helmet protruded through ...

Ran into Doc down at The Mule Barn the other day, so naturally we had to rid the world of about a gallon of coffee and solve the world’s problems for an hour. It is the duty of all true Americans of o...

On Tuesday, I was sipping my morning coffee and watching a morning television program. The anchor was interviewing a group of I’d guess of about first graders. I wish now I’d been paying closer attent...

The other night it was hot. Hot during the day, hot at night. Heat seems to define this time of year for us, in many ways. But in spite of that, after a day in the outdoors, we built a fire. A small f...

With temperatures sizzling across our state, it’s hard to imagine the fall hunting season is just around the corner. More than a gaggle of geese at your pond? If your favorite body of water is experie...

In previous Just Thinkin’s, I have referenced my “love-hate” relationship with television commercials. Recently the “windows and bladders” folks have launched a barrage of commercials that might be to...

“Hot? You boys think this here weather is hot? You jest don’t know, do you?” “What do you mean, Windy?” said Doc. “Wellsir, back in the old days, you know, when we was younger, there came upon us here...

Doc isn’t even sure why he did it. For days afterwards, people would talk about it, then smile and shake their heads and just say “Oh, that Doc…” The whole thing came up on the spur of the moment. Doc...

Looking for things of interest to give your family an indoor option during this oppressive heat of July? Here’s a story of a gentleman whose interest as a boy grew into one of the most impressive priv...

We are all collectors. What we collect is meaningful to us, things that rekindle memories. It is the nature of life that most of us, at some time, are going be required to sort the collections of anot...

Steve, the tall cowboy of us philosophy types, was riding a young horse through town the other day to get him used to boogers. To gentle a horse, he explained, you give them something to booger at, an...

The hottest ticket in Muskogee this summer is the Beast Feast, which is an occasion jointly sponsored by New Community Church and BOOM. Instrumental in the formation of the Beast Feast was a local pas...

I would venture to say that in 1974 most of us non-coastal types did not have a fear of sharks on our psyche radar. Then, came the summer of 1975. Steven Spielberg directed the screen adaptation of Pe...

It was Windy Wilson’s turn, unofficially, of course, to pick a coffee counter topic of learned truth and everlasting beauty. We sorta took turns without keeping score. “Ya know,” said the old camp coo...