April 4, 2018 Today Karen, Miss P and I drove down to Oklahoma City, adding our voice to the thousands of educators who, for almost all of my daughter’s life, have that their salary buying power reduced by over 10%,…
Thank God I Work for People, Not a Company
“Man, the world ain’t supposed to work like this. I mean, maybe you don’t know that yet. I’m supposed to be able to do my job without having to ask you if I can. That dude is supposed to be…
Meet day at the Nadia Invitational
Friday our Jenks girls will complete at the Nadia Invitational in OKC. Go Jenks!
Riding that White Stag, all the way to the DNA Sequencer…
November 29, 2017 This year and last, thanks to Ancestry.com, Google searching and Google translate, I’ve been able to fill in many bits and pieces in my wacky and far-ranging family genealogy. I’ve written here about some of the discoveries…
P has a SIM card (so now OurPact really has to work)
October 25, 2017 Being the parent of a tween girl, I’ve written more than once about the travails of managing P’s diet of screentime. First here, and then here. A few weeks ago, when faced with the surly attitude that…
Unintended Consequences
September 24, 2017 Like most of the U.S. (of a certain age anyway), I’m slogging my way through Ken Burns’ Vietnam on PBS. Since I was a youngster back then, it’s been educational to fill in the blanks of my…
A Day of Caring. And Cinnamon Rolls…
Tomorrow is the Tulsa Area United Way’s 26th Day of Caring: a chance for more than 5,000 volunteers to fan out across the Tulsa area to work on approx. 350 community service projects. It’s kind of a big deal —…
Jury Duty Eclipses the Eclipse
August 25, 2017 Okay: you can say I told you so. Since July 5th this year I’ve been “on call” with the US District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma. Every Friday after 5:00 pm (all Summer) my ritual has been…
A Code of their Own
Last week, my daughter participated in the Tulsa STEM Alliance’s “Code of their Own” camp, at the Tulsa City-County Library downtown. Sidebar: if you’ve not ventured down to the new remodeled library yet, you owe it to yourself to visit.…
RUM: Managing Funds for Fun and Nonprofit
We all have competing demands for our time and resources. After the basics of food, shelter and education for our families we’re involved in things to better our world — volunteering and giving to nonprofits and/or to our church. In…