Stock Market Insights

Show Me the Money: What's Next for Markets? When I was in high school, I worked at a local video store. Back then, people left home, drove to a store, and wandered the aisles looking for a movie to rent.

Stock Market Insights

Stock Market Outlook for the Second Half of 2026: Where Investors Should Focus In junior high, our school dances were in the cafeteria. The girls all danced in the middle, and the guys would lean against the walls, hoping a girl would dance with them at the next slow song.

Some weeks are just… off

Some weeks are calm, productive and suspiciously well-behaved.Other weeks feel like every appliance, vehicle, animal and bodily function in your household got together and planned a group project.This was one of those weeks. My husband’s car started leaking gas.

Fish Tales

Fish where they are, when they are There are two kinds of fishermen in July: the ones who understand hot-weather fishing and the ones who spend six hours casting into bathwater, catch nothing and announce that the fish aren’t biting.The fish are biting.

Supporting the Space Shuttle’s First Mission

As I look back from where I am in retirement, after spending thirtyone years supporting and leading testing at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), I can reflect on one event I feel especially proud to have been part of.

Adventures with Allie

My son turned 1.I knew his first birthday would make me sentimental. I expected a few tears, maybe a dramatic stare out the window, maybe a moment where I looked at him and wondered how time had the absolute nerve to keep moving.

’Twas the Night Before the Fourth in the Cimarron Valley

’Twas the night before the Fourth in the Cimarron Valley, And all through the towns, folks were ready to rally.The flags were all hung from the porches with care, Waving proud in the warm Oklahoma air.

Freedom Is Noisy!

A republic, if we can keep it. This Fourth of July, Americans celebrate a milestone unlike any before it, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Adventures with Allie

The Fourth of July has always smelled like something.When I was little, it smelled like desert dust and hot pavement. It smelled like sunscreen, smoke and whatever kind of trouble children could find when they were handed sparklers, firecrackers and far too much freedom.

Revolving Door Debates over Education Reform

Legislative decisions in regard to literacy rates and how to improve the educational system appears to be a revolving door of the same arguments.