A Piercing Generation
For some, a variety of body piercing is considered taboo. Others admire them as body art. Over the years, each generation increases the threshold on what is accepted in body modification. The negative image that comes along with tattoos and piercing has perhaps evolved more into a subtle disapproval and a slight outrage expressed mainly…
Read More >Perking Up Pregnancy
Consider the joys of pregnancy: the line on your home pregnancy test, breaking the news to your spouse, peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, not to mention the nausea and lack of sleep. But a couple of Edmond moms want to “perk up pregnancy.” Two years ago, sisters-in-law, Aprile Miller, 24, and Serina Isch, 27, came…
Read More >One Day at a Time
Dan Nyagol, a first-year Kenyan student at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, doesn’t want to think about the future. He lives life in the present, and understands attending college next year may be impossible. After completing classes last December, Dan traveled to Emporia, Kansas, to celebrate Christmas with his older brother, Elijah, who…
Read More >A Stand-Up Pastor
It's a packed house at the Comedy Club in Las Vegas. A lanky figure sporting tattoos from wrists to shoulders stumbles up to the mic, wipes the mop of hair out of his eyes, and explodes with jokes. Then he talks about God and then bombards the crowd with more jokes. No sex, no profanity—…
Read More >Edmond Is… Wine Country
Good wine is more than just a drink to accompany dinner. Good wine is an art. Dedicated winemakers search for the best grapes, the perfect blend of fruit and oak aromas, and the delicate harmony between blend and body. They strive for the richness found only in precise aging, whether it occurs on the vine…
Read More >Walking for Joey
Rocky Dunham, a simple man, full of integrity, pride and pain. Life for Rocky took an unexpected turn in May when he received a phone call from the police. Joey, his youngest son had taken his own life, leaving behind a wife, daughter and parents. As time slowly passes, Dunham seeks answers and closure. “It…
Read More >The Candy Queen
Brenda Murphy, creator of candy art and frequent guest on national TV, shares a little bit about herself, her art and her preference of M&M’s. Q: How did you get the title “Candy Queen?” A: The name “Candy Queen” came from an October 1999 Good Housekeeping profile. They did an article about me being on…
Read More >Sculpted Prayers
Public art says a lot about a city. It memorializes its history, its people and its values. Tulsa sculptor Rosalind Cook is a public art maven. Her work lives in Vatican City, Russia and countless U.S. cities from coast to coast. Now it lives in Edmond, too. With the installation of Cook’s “Come Unto Me”—a…
Read More >Best Toy Store, Dental Care, Boutique & Beadery
Dr. Joe Harris, D.D.S. When every person who walks through your door has a natural dislike of you and your profession, making friends isn’t easy. Edmond dentist Dr. Joe Harris meets that challenge head-on. Harris admits that the hardest part of being a dentist is simply that most people don’t enjoy having dental…
Read More >Touch A Truck, Touch A Life
In a veritable who’s who of exciting vehicles, kids could not only see the different cars and trucks, they could reach out and touch them. More than 35 trucks, cars and vans and over 1,000 people gathered in the parking lot of Edmond’s UCO last May to support starving children in a unique fundraiser called…
Read More >Peaks of Life:
Dr. Douglas Beall, 43, is thousands of feet in the air and suspended horizontally. A fall would mean almost certain death for the Edmond radiologist. His only lifeline is an alarmingly thin rope strung between two jagged rock formations and something is terribly wrong. Beall has just realized he’s stuck. But that was months ago…
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