Barbara Ellen
Last May I went over to eastern Oklahoma to visit some relatives. The occasion was the wedding of my cousin’s oldest daughter, Barbara Ellen, whom many in town had given up on ever becoming a bride. Naturally the event called for a celebration. They live in one of those small, hilly towns up against the [...]
We be all suspect now
“If you’re not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about.” -Many Americans Bob Hatley was an average kind of guy, a third-generation native, married to his high-school sweetheart, two kids and a dog, attended church fairly regularly, worked hard to support his family, and was a registered voter who often skipped elections. [...]
Super grass
Last fall my old friend, Ernie, tilled and re-seeded his lawn. It took him a couple of days of hard work, but I still wasn’t prepared for the lush, green grass covering his yard by early March. It looked kind of weird, almost out of place, especially considering that we had frost until April this [...]
Pet of the Week: Tigger
Tigger is a Beagle mixed with a Jack Russel and has been fixed and has had all of his shots! Tigger is almost three years old and is a very sweet dog. Tigger gets along well with all other dogs cats and kids! If you would like to meet Tigger or any of our four [...]
Pet of the week – Snowball
Here at the Wynona Animal Rescue Inc. we have rehabilitated several Black Labs which are quite an intelligent, energetic and compassionate breed of dog. All of these dogs have been spayed or neutered and are current on their vaccinations. We have Snow ball who is a young male around 15-18 months old and is very [...]
Government Twisters
Wynette, the wife of my old friend Ernie, called me the other day. She sounded frantic. “I’m really worried about Ernie,” she said, “I can’t get him to go to work or anything. He won’t even go outside. All he does is sit in the recliner all day watching old Alex Jones re-runs, listening to [...]
Riverbend
“I’ll meet you ’round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend.” That’s how Riverbend began her blog ten years ago, in the summer of 2003, shortly after the American invasion. At the time, she was a 24-year-old Iraqi woman of mixed Shia and Sunni heritage who lived with her parents [...]
Pet of the week – Mama D
Mama D is around three years old and is an American Dingo mixed with what we believe to be German Shepard. Mama is spayed and current on her vaccinations, and is an outside dog. Mama has a very calm manner and loyal soft personality, but is shy with humans at first. Mama D would do [...]
Pet of the Week: Scooty
Meet Scooty and his fellow puppy friends. These sweet babies are around 9 to 10 weeks old and are current on their vaccinations. We have three boys and three girls, five of which are black and kind of a little tan or white in other small spots, the one other puppy is a golden color [...]
Eat More Bugs
Just in time for your summer picnic season comes a report which may forever change how you feel about ants. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released a report calling on people to eat more insects, not only to boost nutrition, but to fight pollution and global hunger. While this may seem a [...]
Pet of the week – little
Little dog is a small terrier mix and is neutered as well as current on his vaccinations. Little dog weighs about 7lbs and is roughly 2-3 years old. Little dog is a real sweet love bug who is always right on your heels or your curled up in your lap. He is also a lover [...]
The Horror
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that Republicans are either as crazy as the proverbial mouse or they’re playing a dangerous game. Last month, a research center at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, PublicMind, conducted a poll measuring the beliefs of registered voters concerning a possible Sandy Hook cover-up, gun control and the likelihood [...]
Pet of the week – Tator
Tater is an adorable and spirited Beagle, pure bread. Tater is a neutered male who is about four years old. Tater is house broken and is an inside/outside dog. Tater would do well in any home with any family, as he is great with other dogs, cats and kids. If you want to meet Tater [...]
The life of a lonely columnist
It’s not as easy as it may seem, you know. This work. Sitting here week after week staring at a blank computer screen for hours, trying to come up with a column which someone will bother to read and which might make them think about a particular subject, or maybe even change the occasional mind. [...]
Hogs in the Stream
My old pappy used to say that a Texan wasn’t nothing but a Mexican who had run out of pesos before he reached the Oklahoma border. Well, that’s not exactly how he phrased it, I’ve cleaned it up a little. Yet while it stands as a broad commentary on the character of Texans in general [...]
Pet of the week: Sunshine
Sunshine is around three years old and has been spayed and is current on her vaccinations. Sunshine is a very sweet dog who has lived both in and out doors. She is a black mouthed Kerr mix, and loves to play and run. Sunshine would do well in any home with anyone, as she gets [...]
Dueling opinions on Malick movie: Louise vs Louis
Snarky Critic By Louise Red Corn The Oklahoma premier of Terrence Malick’s “To The Wonder” got off to a rough start at Bartlesville’s Community Center on Friday night. An ad touting Bartlesville Magazine stuck on “Blu Ray – 1.5 Mb/s” then the movie itself hung up briefly on a second disc “HDMV.” “That’s really professional,” someone [...]
Confessions of a Sardine Eater
I got a call from an old girlfriend, Lenora, in Tulsa the other day. At one time we had been something of an item. That was until she found out that despite being an insurance company executive and wearing a suit to work every day, I was stone broke and my fortune was unlikely to [...]
Five generations together
The Keene family of Bartlesville visited Mrs. Lois Long of Barnsdall on Easter Sunday. Pictured in this five generation photo is: Robbie Keene, Grandma Lois Long, baby Liam, Jason, and Rikki Keene. By Robbie Keene
The Trouble with Democrats
The trouble with being a Democrat is that, more often than not, you have to hold your nose and vote for the latest yahoo the party machinery has kicked out, just in order to stem the dark tide of Republican greed, repression and idiocy. You can be sure that any candidate who truly represents Democratic [...]
The War Next Time
The recent ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War passed, certainly not celebrated, and largely unobserved, but clearly lacking the level of righteous outrage which should accompany such a useless, immoral, and costly failure. More than 5,000 American lives, over 30,000 injured, at least 150,000 Iraqi civilians dead, their country in shambles. Current estimates of the [...]
Pet of the week – Cricket
This is little Ms. Cricket. We got her right before Thanksgiving from the Sapulpa pound. We think she may have been thrown for a car or kicked. She has a limp in her back leg, but it does not slow her down. We finally feel …she is doing well enough to be adopted into a [...]
Vaping with Ernie and Wynette
I was feeling like I needed a little more company than my dog Jake could offer the other day, so I called my old friends Ernie and Wynette, hoping they might invite me over. “What are you guys doing?” I asked when Ernie answered the telephone. “Just sitting around having a beer and vaping,” he [...]
On Pawville Hill
We’ve had our share of chicken troubles. Complaining neighbors, city officials, vicious cats, superstitious chickens and even chickens so dumb they wouldn’t come in out of the rain, as they say. But last week was a sad, sad time. Apparently it happened while I was walking with my good friend and faithful dog, Jake. I’m [...]
