The Henna Chick Raven started her henna journey in 2001 when she saw woman from India at Best Buy. The woman was coming from her wedding and likely shopping with gift cards they received. Raven followed her around the store looking at the art work on the woman’s hands and feet, she was completely in love with this form of art but had no idea what it was called and for some reason, did not ask the woman. Raven went home and Googled every way she could think of to find out what

Some people defy being easily categorized and Chelsea Copeland is one of them. I began attending meetings of the writers group, Tulsa Ink Slingers, seven years ago. Chelsea is the only teenager I’ve met who actively participated in any local writers group. Not only did she attend, the imaginative quality of her YA fiction writing belied her outwardly shy, teenage persona. Honestly, all of the adults in the group were blown away by her writing skills. So where does this kind o

Columbus is a big part of Euro-American mythology and even though he was lost when he first landed in the West Indies, he is looked upon as a great explorer. Columbus, first setting foot on the island of the Arawak people, is often likened to Neil Armstrong first setting foot on the moon. In reality, Columbus had not discovered a "New World", but had discovered an ancient people living in the way of their ancestors. These people were part of the original inhabitants of the We

Kasia Olek began her journey as an immigrant in Poland as Kararzyna, but now she is known as Kasia for short. Her story is a layer of two ge