Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1900 hurricane that wiped out a good portion of the island of Galveston, Texas. I couldn’t let that date go by without mentioning it. If you haven’t read much about it in history, let me tell you that it is an amazing, true story of devastation and horror and […]
May 25, 2022
Incomprehension
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In the wake of that horrible happening in Texas yesterday, I hesitate to write this morning. As a mom, grandma, and once-upon-a-time school teacher, my mind boggles at the unending pain and wrecked lives, those young and beautiful children whose future has ended, and for the murdered adults. For their loved ones, I don’t believe […]
Sep 11, 2020
With No Warning
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I’m afraid that most of the time, I take life, freedom, family for granted. I go along, day by day, expecting everything to remain the same. But sometimes, things change suddenly and unexpectedly, as they did on this day nineteen years ago for all of us. Each person in the hijacked airplanes, in the twin […]
May 2, 2020
The Merciless Wind, Part I
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Since this is the 100 year anniversary of the Peggs tornado, and although I re-published it last year at this time, I do so again today. For a time, I wrote feature stories for The Tahlequah Daily Press. On May 5, 1985, The Press published an article I wrote about the tornado that destroyed Peggs, […]
May 1, 2019
The Peggs Tornado
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Since it is the 99 year anniversary of the Peggs tornado, and although I re-published it last year at this time, I do so again today. For a time, I wrote feature stories for The Tahlequah Daily Press. On May 5, 1985, The Press published an article I wrote about the tornado that destroyed Peggs, […]
