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Continue reading →: From convocation at Oklahoma to graduation at Arizona State, some thoughtsAs I observed the new University of Oklahoma graduates from wonderful Gaylord College walk the stage during Saturday’s convocation at the historic McCasland Fieldhouse, I thought to myself that this would be me in less than six months — walking the stage in Tempe, Arizona, as I receive a master’s…
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Continue reading →: ‘MICHELLE’ the band was my favorite discovery of 2023Science has a lot to say about our musical tastes, namely that as we age, we aren’t nearly as likely to explore new music. What science says though isn’t that we’re just ‘old,’ it says that our hearing has changed. Mick Haupt wrote for ‘The Conversation’ earlier this year that…
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Continue reading →: Journalism’s mission is clear, to divorce itself from all social mediaThe greatest thing to happen to journalism in the first few years of the 21st Century is now its greatest threat: social media. And mostly I mean Facebook. Oh, there is plenty of good journalism happening on social media platforms, new ways of telling stories, many of them not executed…
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Continue reading →: Muskogee’s Football Win A Reminder Of The Power Of ‘Where We Come From’The annual Brothers Gathering in Oklahoma City was this past weekend, and it gave two of the three of us the chance to revisit our childhood. We grew up in various places across eastern Oklahoma. Spent several years in Okmulgee, a few more than those in Muskogee and the final…
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Continue reading →: Big changes in workout routine, including a move from the YMCA to Life TimeI had been with the Cleveland County YMCA for about 15 years. With its ‘Reciprocity’ solution, I was able to visit any YMCA in the United States — and that includes right next to the news station where I work. To be clear, I loved the Cleveland County Y, and…
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Continue reading →: Saturday night musings: March 18Watching CBS’ “Ghosts” with my family while watching UCLA battle Northwestern on my phone and keeping up with the United States-Venezuela quarterfinal game in the World Baseball Classic. First musing: “Ghosts” is the most clever, interesting, and funny network TV show in years. We’re almost through Season 1. I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: Oklahoma’s ‘Chicken Shack’ a Friday night delight, good for the soulIt was my birthday last August, a Friday night, and my wife took me to this joint a little northeast of Oklahoma City. It was in the woods, in the middle of nowhere albeit within a short drive of another iconic stop in Arcadia, “Pops.” The joint to which I’m…
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Continue reading →: What is it about running with the pack that makes your runs faster?A new running season is upon us, and for those of us in central Oklahoma that means getting ready for the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, half-marathon, or in my case 5K. I’ve run three half-marathons, but I’ve decided to focus on 5Ks in 2023 so that my body could handle…
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Continue reading →: First class of Arizona State’s ‘Digital Audience Strategy’ an actionable eye-openerThe first class of my grad school experience at Arizona State is just about over. I’ve got one big final project to do before I’m all done with MCO 561: Defining the Digital Audience, the first core class of the Digital Audience Strategy program at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of…
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Continue reading →: Connection between Arizona State, Oklahoma now feels like it was meant to beAn eventful summer is turning into a whale of a busy fall. I haven’t begun to document our recent trip to Canada, and there is so much to document. My quest to run or walk 500 miles in 2022 has been derailed by injury or arthritis or some combo of…
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