Archive for August 2026

(Grad Student Life, Part Two) I love the start of the school year. New classes, new colleagues, new school supplies! First day of class pictures were not a ‘thing’ when I was in school, but I got this picture during New Graduate Student Orientation so I thought it use it as my back-to-school picture, even…

If you went to elementary school in Oklahoma City in the 1960s, you learned three important items. 1. Football was very important, particularly OU football. When I was in seventh grade, the principal interrupted morning classes to announce over the loudspeaker that Steve Owens had won the Heisman Trophy. Cheers rang out through the school.…

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it was like to start college, about being a “new kid” at anything, really. I was so concerned about my appearance and thought so hard about what I should wear to my first class as a freshman at the University of Oklahoma, that I know exactly what I…

Where Did the Time Go? Surprise! The last time I sent out an email and posted in Substack, was May 2025. I thought I was going to write semi-regularly, but then all of the sudden, a lot of time had passed. There are multiple reasons for that of course, but here a couple of them.…