While the big game seasons in the state are now closed, few stories will top the remarkable season had by hunter Norman Barton Jr. of Cookson. After 53 years of applying through the Oklahoma Departmen...

Location and name changes aside, the Stigler Café will always be in a rock building on the northwest side of Main Street. You know the place. Its downtown just east of Bill Sturgeons Pontiac dealershi...

There are those who give their address as “The Streets.” The U.S. Post Office doesn’t deliver there. Those who care about such things don’t live there. Our weather took a turn toward Arctic cold and I...

The air temperature outside is 2 degrees and the snow flurries are beginning to accumulate. In times such as these, my Grandmother Lane would tell me that it was too cold to snow. I looked out my wind...

My name is Evan Breedlove and I have spent most of my career working with, developing and administering health insurance plans for employees and clients. For the past several years, I have been workin...

It's January, and I have been watching the weather forecasts on television with increasing intensity. I listen but often disagree with the forecast. So, I sit in my living room in front of television ...

Reeder’s is a service station located at 21st and Lewis Avenue in Tulsa, just a few blocks from my home. Reeders full-service pumps equals their self-service pumps and they have chefs and a kitchen th...

Oklahoma state parks are offering free guided hikes at many sites on Sunday to promote healthy lifestyles in the new year. These events are part of America’s state parks’ “First Day Hikes” program and...

Do our New Year’s Celebration have a tie to pagan rituals once observed, then lost? Perhaps. A desire to make the short, dark days between the end of fall and the onset of spring as palatable as possi...

The morning conference began innocently enough, with Steve and Doc arguing over which of the little packaged jellies went better on sourdough toast, and no one caring which one was right. Dud and Bert...

Now before you can sneak away, here comes that pharaoh of the feed-store, that baron of the bunkhouse, that titan of the tack room …Windy Wilson. Well, t’other day I meandurated around town until I cr...

We have had a mild December so far, but winter will come. With it, families will search for outdoor activities. Roughly 10 years ago, my family and I took a road trip to Branson, Mo., during which we ...

I yawned and wondered how much of my life had been consumed watching commercials on television. Wasted was the first verb that came to mind but given thought consumed was the more accurate. Television...

It began the way most miracles do: by accident or the hand of God, take your pick. It might have been the weather, at least partly. For December, the day had been almost balmy and warm. You know, swea...

One of the rewards I get from writing the outdoor column are the youngsters I come across who take an interest in hunting, fishing or anything that involves spending time afield. When 13-year-old Aust...

In my mind there is no such thing as just barbeque. Each barbeque has a unique, distinctive flavor that characterizes it. Can I label it? No. But I know it when I taste it. Why think of barbeque here ...

Mabel Adams was sitting in the day room at the Rest of Your Life retirement home when the children came in. She smiled and so did all the others in the room except for two who didn’t know what was goi...

If quail hunting is your bag of oats, there’s no better time than the present to pick up your shotgun, grab a box or two of shells and, by all means, if you have a good bird dog, bring him or her alon...

Every now and then, thought Doc, that opportunity comes back to haunt me. Like it is right now on this crisp morning walk. It came early in his medical life, an invitation to join with a famous big ho...

It’s not just Black Friday anymore. Now, the selling holidays have been added in Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday as well. Shopping time for my wife and I begins this weekend. If you need some...