Changing careers is common. Returning to school is common. Reevaluating the path you’re winding down is common. Changing careers from public relations professional to spiritual psychologist isn’t so common. Neither is returning to school at a campus 1,300 miles away from your home. The same goes for reorienting your life to revolve around the “how” […]
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‘The good crazy’
He wants it to be about Heartland Rabbit Rescue in Blanchard, about Mindy’s Memory Primate Sanctuary, about Hands Helping Paws in Norman and about each and every animal rescue and rights organization in Oklahoma, the United States and beyond. “They’re my real heroes,” he said. What Ingersoll would really like this story to be about, […]
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Prisoners and pooches
What you notice first in this scene is the bond between man and dog, both content to sit side by side as long as they’re allowed. Then your eyes drift to Miller’s standard-issue gray uniform, and you remember that this tableau is taking place not in a recliner in the living room, but rather the […]
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To be an Oklahoman
In Oklahoma, when you pop out of your mama, the doctors give you the once-over. They check your eyes, because they know you’re going to have to stare down EF4 tornadoes and not flinch. They check the gravel in your guts, because true grit is making a living from hard, dry land, molding a life […]
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Living with Alzheimer’s
Increasingly, the solution may come in the form of facilities dedicated to serving those with memory impairment. Edmond already has one such center, Touchmark at Coffee Creek, but soon the city will have an $8.8 million facility to meet a growing demand. Autumn Leaves of Edmond, the first stand-alone memory-care facility in the state, is […]
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Supply and diversity
Monty Milburn By: Mark Hancock But that’s how Scott Hamilton describes it. “As grotesque as that was, [it] truly served a positive purpose for Oklahoma City’s LGBT community,” said Hamilton, executive director of Cimarron Alliance. “It was at that point that people started asking, ‘Where am I spending my money?’” It’s a question that, after […]
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An app for that
Several local apps have gotten in on the game, making it easy to find a restaurant, choose a beer, hear tunes from metro bands, schedule a spa day and even dabble in philanthropy. The idea is to make your day-to-day activities as simple as a round of Temple Run. “[Nearly anyone] can pick up a […]
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The rest of the story
As he sat down at a computer terminal in the Social Security Administration office of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, he did not hear the boom of the explosion. He could not know that its origin was a Ryder rental truck parked just feet from the office’s reception area. “Different people have different experiences […]
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Taking refuge
Yassir Kori Credit: Mark Hancock She spent years in a Thai refugee camp. He was tortured by Myanmar police for a crime he did not commit. These aren’t headlines scrolling across a ticker; they are the stories of three Oklahoma City residents, and they are just a small sample of a larger population. A substantial […]
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Thunder city
Credit: Shannon Cornman It existed in the shadow of the boom-and-bust economy of Tulsa’s oil-rich gentility, whose development outpaced its sister down the turnpike for much of the last half-century. It existed in the shadow of equidistant college rivals whose fan bases divided the city’s allegiance. Most of all, it existed in the shadow of […]