Planning Ahead: Continuing Care
Arranging for retirement – and, more importantly, how you want to spend the latter years of your life – can be daunting, but decisions you make today can offer security in the future. It’s one of the reasons why senior living communities continue to grow in popularity. Many are designed to provide residents with the amenities...
Oklahomans are (quite literally) lighting up the sky to celebrate a joyous holiday season, and nowhere in the state do the lights twinkle brighter than Ardmore, which offers one of the state’s biggest holiday extravaganzas.
The awe-inspiring, 1.5-mile drive through the Festival of Lights display in the city’s sprawling Regional Park – complete with an ice rink – is Ardmore’s...
More than any other time of the year, the holiday season awakens cravings. Whether it’s a unique flavor that’s perfect in the winter months or the nostalgia of grandma’s spiced apple pie, December is a time of indulgence. While giving in to that proverbial sweet tooth is enjoyable in the moment, there’s a way to find a balance. Experts...
With the holidays drawing near, many are engaging in online shopping to get in a festive mood. Some of those shoppers don’t realize, however, that this season can add greater fraud and phishing risks – whether they’re from the additional purchases or just from letting defenses go down as the spirit of giving takes over.
Jack Kelley, assistant vice president...
The island is a skinny, nine-mile-long spatula, serving up thick slices of scenic country road bicycling, mountain hiking and world-class kayaking under the curious eyes of leaping black and white orca whales.
Lummi (rhymes with yummy) Island, Wash., lies just shy of the Canadian border, off the coast near Bellingham, protected on its western flank by the San Juan Islands....
Just a couple of blocks off Oklahoma 66, down Pine Street in Catoosa, sits the D.W. Correll Museum, an incredible repository of rocks, minerals, fossils, antique cars and carriages, jewelry, bottles and decanters, toys, model ships and autos – and more. There’s so much, in fact, that the collection takes up two buildings.
At every turn, you’ll find something intriguing....
Oklahoma houses a variety of colleges with well-respected music programs, but several academies that focus solely on the music also exist for students of all ages.
Oklahoma Music Academy, located in Tulsa, offers private lessons and tutoring for guitar, drums, voice, piano and bass guitar.
“We also offer a rock band style ensemble class for qualified students that focuses on contemporary...
Fab Lab Tulsa is providing a pathway for Oklahomans to improve their world by building, prototyping, experimenting and fabricating.
The lab, a not-for-profit that aims to empower the Tulsa community, offers education and programming that teaches innovation, design-thinking, problem-solving and change-making. In addition, the lab provides open and equitable access to advanced manufacturing and digital fabrication tools, equipment, and technology.
“Fab...
The history of Oklahoma often gets obscured by the fact that many don’t think back past preliminary European contact. But there was a rich history here many millennia before the first Europeans arrived – and archeology is the way to study these prehistoric civilizations.
“Knowing what past people in Oklahoma were doing really does inform the present, and our understandings...
Running a business is tough – regardless of the time of year. There are thousands of things to think about and even more to accomplish. Add in the holiday season and the stress can compound; shoppers come out in droves and companies hunker down for the biggest rush of the year.
“The business totally changes in the fourth quarter of...
