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4 weeks ago | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
As a boy, Sean Stanford’s goal was to be a break dancer, but he grew up to be an antiquarian, co-owner and operator of Oak Tree Books. If there is a through line between his childhood and now, it would be an abiding love to collect things. “I collected baseball cards as a kid so it was an easy transition into collecting books as I got older,” Stanford says.
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1 month ago | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
As a boy, Sean Stanford’s goal was to be a break dancer, but he grew up to be an antiquarian, co-owner and operator of Oak Tree Books. If there is a through line between his childhood and now, it would be an abiding love to collect things. “I collected baseball cards as a kid so it was an easy transition into collecting books as I got older,” Stanford says.
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1 month ago | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
Oh, hello, June. I’ve been waiting for you. We have had the weirdest weather since you were here last, and I’m ready for you to put on your spring bonnet and sing songs with rhymes of croon, moon and tune. I’m anxious to see you stand en pointe June 20 to mark the summer equinox and very slowly pirouette to summer. This month we’ll let June’s Gemini and Cancer people shine. I saw an astrological analysis online that stated they are the funniest signs of the zodiac. Go ahead. Show us.
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2 months ago | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
It’s easy to spot a Dilbeck house. It’s the one that looks like a doll house, a troll home, a quaint cottage right out of a storybook. Architectural magazines have struggled to describe the style — magical, quirky, whimsical, delightful. One finally settled on “unlike anything else in town.”Charles Stevens Dilbeck (1907-1990) created a truly original architectural style.
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2 months ago | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
I’ve never been able to keep a daily diary. The routine doesn’t agree with me. It becomes a chore, like floors that must be swept. Also, I’m not good at it. My few attempts produce dull entries that read: “Hot day. Made sun tea.” On the other hand, I find great joy in sitting outside in dappled sunshine and reading with a notebook and pen at hand. Great thoughts surface. Or so I imagined.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
Where were the Christians in Germany during the Holocaust and genocide of World War II? Where were the Christians in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia in the 1990s during the genocide there? These countries were overwhelmingly baptized Christian nations, so why were the Christians so silent? Answering questions like these became a lifetime study for Carol Rittner, Ph.D, Roman Catholic nun with the Religious Sisters of Mercy, professor and editor.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
Ilike something Emily Dickinson wrote in a letter to a friend: “I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”I’ve been out with lanterns lately, too, looking for my lost joy. Peter Pan lost his shadow and J.M. Barrie wrote an entire play about it. I misplaced my joy and nobody seems to notice. I think that’s because they’re busy with their own lantern-lit quests. When there’s something heavy in the air or a feeling of menace, it’s easy to lose joy.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
How in the world did I get to be this age without knowing about the blue hour? The blue hour has occurred every day, twice a day in fact, every year that I’ve been alive. Maybe not in inclement weather when the sky is dark, but every other day. That’s tens of thousands of blue hours I’ve missed. I don’t know how I came across the term blue hour, but it instantly intrigued me. Here was another opportunity to spend hours of internet research.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
This will be the second year for Mayfest’s Youth Art Gallery, one of the many facets of the festival’s reimagined Kids World by Julie Carson. As the wife of The University of Tulsa’s President Brad Carson, she shares his commitment to strengthening the college’s community involvement. In 2023 TU acquired the 101 Archer building, former home of the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa — “a significant footprint in Tulsa’s Arts District,” she says.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
tulsapeople.com | Connie Cronley
Clifton Taulbert’s bestselling memoir “Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored” was published 36 years ago and became a phenomenal success that surprised both him and the publisher. The book’s success is especially remarkable since he didn’t write it with any expectation of publication. He wrote the little book (just 5-by-7 inches and 153 pages) memorializing the kind people of his hometown of Glen Allan, Mississippi, in the segregated South of the 1950s.
