Entries for the 'people' Category

Already Arlis Nuckolls is feeling the shift.  His T-shirt clings to his back, sweat breaks in a line across his upper lip, and he stops for a moment to lean on his shovel.  Which he is using to dig a grave at Newberry Chapel Cemetery in Alma.

Nicole Brand, born on December 13, 1993, made her musical debut after having just turned one year old.  “We had Christmas music playing,” her grandpa, Ben Brand Sr., says, “when we noticed she was keeping time with the bells on her shoes. 

Patricia Del Rio walks in carrying a portrait of a gap-toothed little girl who grins from her spot on the unframed canvas.  Patricia’s smile is even wider.  For a moment there is more light in the small space Patricia occupies than in all the rest of the building put together.

Take a bunch of college guys, throw in a snow day, add a Katy Perry song and see what you get.  If you're Van Buren's Devon Park the mix results in a little thing called global recognition.

Matt Miller is a follower of spherical living, a concept he uncovered while talking to his traveling buddy in Morocco.  The philosophy is a simple one: we start out rounded, untouched by our environment, unscathed by negativity, not yet influenced by the expectations of others.  That is our pure spherical state.

Ladies you will lust after the Marlboro Man.  It’s okay, he’s far enough away – in Pawhuska, Oklahoma – that you’ll likely regain your wits before you jump in your SUV and crank up the GPS. 

Ron Watson opens the door to his home on a day so cold frost covers the ground.  He is wearing an untucked shirt and chinos, and he is barefoot, standing on a concrete floor that is painted white. 

Shaden Jedlicka remembers walking home from school on a freezing afternoon when he was nine.  There was snow on the playground swings, the wind lifting the heavy chains and clanging them against the metal poles.

His hands could be mistaken for those of an auto mechanic—large and calloused, stained with dirt and paint—hands that have been used, a lot. His bright blue eyes seem to sparkle with imagination as he speaks passionately about the world he sees around him, a world that sounds quite different from yours and mine.