What makes anyone believe that we’re enjoying this?

Posted by John Small | Apr 8, 2020 | Small Talk

Longtime readers may recall that I shared the following story in this column once before, a number of years ago now. It bears repeating this week, because it touches upon something that has been weighing heavily on my mind again in recent days: Way back in the late 1980s, when my wife Melissa and I […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

What makes anyone believe that we’re enjoying this?

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