Many months have come and gone

since I wandered from my home

in those Oklahoma hills where I was born

Tho' a page of life has turned

and a lesson I have learned

yet I feel like in those hills I still belong.

— Woody Guthrie, "Oklahoma Hills"

You know I'd go back there tomorrow

but for the work I've taken on

stoking the star maker machinery

behind the popular song

— Joni Mitchell, "Free Man in Paris"

Extras! Extras!

Morningside wrapped before I left. Here are the final New York stories.

Going to New York City? Skim over my city travel guide, MANhattan.

We all dialed 911 on 9/11. Reflections and notes on the country's tragedy.

Vacation photos: a weekend on the Maine coast, a tour of No Man's Land.

We're buying a house. What a crazy rite of American passage this is.

My dreams are never ordinary fare. Freud, Jung – dig my dream journal.

Index photos are of (1) downtown Manhattan, (2) downtown Tulsa, and (3) your host.
This edition's foyer banner star is the Golden Driller, a Tulsa landmark and a wistful (albeit painful in today's economy) reminder of the city's golden age as the oil capital of the world.