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Author: Red Dirt Kelly

EPTOM: Cedar Valley, OK (“Duffy IS Cedar Valley”)

Posted on February 15, 2015May 14, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

Editor’s Note: Duffy Martin passed away on the evening of April 17, 2015, just a few weeks short of his 99th birthday. Our team is grateful for the beautiful day we spent with him last summer, and hope this piece helps honor the memory of an exceptional Oklahoman. ~  *** Sitting in the dining room…

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Ten Big Truths for Every Committed Couple

Posted on February 12, 2015November 10, 2022 by Red Dirt Kelly

As a licensed marriage and family therapist and marital researcher for almost 15 years, I’ve come to some big picture conclusions about relationships.  I call them “Big Truths” and penned them on Facebook for my friends and family.  I’ve decided to post them here as well, in case they might be of some support to…

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EPOTM: Guthrie, OK (She Doused Us In Validation)

Posted on February 7, 2015April 6, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

“I think artists innately feel a connection to a Creator, because I think there’s something magical in [the creating art] process, and something Divine in that process.”

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EPTOM: Navina, OK (The Day Our Nose Hairs Melted)

Posted on January 31, 2015March 31, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

A foul odor of decaying grain permeated every square inch of the wind-swept air swirling around the spaces where Rachel and I stood. The putrid, concentrated ammonia-urea-rotting protein essence was singeing the membranes in my nose. I swear I heard them sizzling…

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EPTOM: Holdenville, OK (“The Best Place on Earth”)

Posted on January 11, 2015March 4, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

She was part of it…the “everything’s great today” air Holdenville was offering to anyone willing to breathe it in. She chatted easily as Rachel got the shot. “Color My World” played in the background while Linda smiled for miles.

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Merry Christmas 2014 – FREE Seasonal Music for Readers of the RDC

Posted on December 24, 2014March 9, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

As a “Merry Christmas” to our sweet friends on this venue, I’m sharing all the files from a 2004 Christmas album my friends at Cherokee Hills Christian Church and I recorded at the University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab.  Thanks to Paul Eastland, Sam Pappas, Mark Hinderliter & Brandon Smith for the good work.  Peace,…

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EPOTM: Tulsa, OK (God Bless George Kaiser)

Posted on December 12, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

While we continuously sort through what our project is, we are fairly certain of what it is not. Every Point on the Map was never intended to serve as a vehicle for promotion of business, places or people.  Rachel and I have already had several discussions about how to decline when someone asks to be…

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EPOTM: New Lima, OK (By the Grace of God)

Posted on November 30, 2014April 6, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

But, the long-time citizen of Lima was sick. Based upon our observations, she was really sick. Her husband struggled to help her with “getting breakfast together,” and she “didn’t even feel like going to church that morning.”

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EPOTM: Beggs, OK

Posted on October 21, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

Their red stone cottage was nestled within the Beggs town proper, not too far from a water tower that, from our angle, read: EGGS.  I noticed ivy gracing the home’s outside walls as I stood on the porch and knocked, only waiting a moment before Jill answered the door.

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EPOTM: Mounds, OK

Posted on October 20, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

“Bull?  How’d you get that name?” We were loading our equipment into the car while Bull and Bobby were sitting outside a convenience store in Mounds. Bobby needed a smoke. “Aw…here we go…”  Bull acted put out while at the same time positioning himself to tell the short version of a story he clearly treasured.

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EPOTM: Little, OK (The Bathroom Ghost)

Posted on October 11, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

Rachel and looked at each other, ambled back to the car, and had the same thought we later verified as we drove to the store. “Some people are just weird.” In my rear-view mirror, I noticed the license plates on her RV read: Alabama.

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EPTOM: Wewoka, OK (Or…How Tori is Getting Her Groove Back)

Posted on August 24, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

Dimples slay me. Regardless of race, age, creed, color or sexual orientation, dimples have always slayed me. They were the first thing I noticed about Tori. The second was the fact that we were sitting at a picnic table talking to this sixteen year-old girl who had a hundred year-old soul.

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EPOTM: Cromwell, OK (or Willie Simpkins and the Board of Education)

Posted on August 2, 2014March 23, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

Everything about our visit with Willie Simpkins surprised me. We felt we were too far into the Cromwell countryside to find someone, but  there was a home that beckoned us.  No one looked home when we pulled into Willie’s driveway, but he answered the door.  And although his face looked like “no” was the inevitable…

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EPOTM: Boley, OK

Posted on July 9, 2014January 11, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

The bar stools in Pookie’s restaurant have sustained much more than the weight of those who have sat and eaten “burgers made with love” years on end. They have held the weight of conversations about Boley exchanged by their occupants. About the school closing three years ago.

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How Billie Holiday, Hoboken Coffee and The Pioneer Woman Talked Me Down from my Starbucks Addiction

Posted on June 14, 2014December 12, 2014 by Red Dirt Kelly

Technology news is full of information about self-tracking apps helping to “quantify” yourself.  Fitbits track your sleep and exercise.  Apps like Mint help you track your spending habits. And…no, let’s just stop right there.  Apps like Mint track your spending patterns and help you see how out of control your coffee drinking habits are. Okay,…

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EPOTM: Meeker, OK

Posted on June 11, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

“You could probably just talk with anyone here.  We’re all like family…that guy just had a horse kick the valve stem off the tire on his trailer, so I helped him fix his flat.” Rachel and I had stepped outside the car to find out what the assembly of hundreds of trailers, horses, and people…

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EPOTM: IXL, OK

Posted on June 2, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

Mother’s Day Eve, 2014, was full of more emotion than I would have liked. Rachel and I had just finished our conversation in Boley and were cruising north on Highway 48.  We were running out of daylight, and had thought we might get to Bristow in enough time to find a good dinner.  We needed…

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EPOTM: Payne, OK

Posted on May 24, 2014May 26, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

I could tell by his face that he wasn’t inclined to speak with Rachel and I. Our first official “no” was discussed as we exited the driveway.  Glancing back at the two-story white house, I knew the owner had a story to share.  But there were hints of physical frailties, and wrinkles on his brow…

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Mother’s Day Strawberries

Posted on May 11, 2014May 11, 2014 by Red Dirt Kelly

As my blade makes its way through a cool, ripe Stilwell strawberry, I breathe in the heady sweetness wafting upwards and across my face. It’s Mother’s Day, and I’ve just returned from a two-day road trip to places I’ve not been, visiting with people I’ve only just met, with one daughter at my side. A…

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EPOTM: Dibble, OK

Posted on May 3, 2014March 18, 2015 by Red Dirt Kelly

A grade school friend of mine who lived across our pasture used to tease our classmates then use “Dibble, OK” as the punch line. “If you DO graduate high school, I’m sure you’ll have nice career at the Sonic in Dibble.” “You’re getting on my nerves.  I think it’s time for you to move to…

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