Culture Posts

I am 76 years old, and I’ll tell you this. I’ve always loved the 4 of July.  Growing up in a relatively poor family on the Southside of Oklahoma City, it seemed to me that we didn’t have a lot to cheer about.  M…

Starting in High School and continuing over the course of my adult life I have attended more than a few Job Fair/Career Expo events. Sometimes as a job seeker and sometimes representing an entity looking to hire. Most have been informative, occasion…

To show I wasn’t just a stuck-in-his-ways-has-been old man, nor a card-carrying luddite, I asked Claude AI to write a few lines about ageism. Here is what Claude said:“Ageism remains one of the most socially accepted forms of discrimin…

There was a concept presented to me several years ago about what it means to be in crisis. What I learned was that in many cases, a crisis is equal parts danger and opportunity. Sure, there are some not so great things about to happen but if we chan…