Vicki Baker Ever since Michael Crichton published Jurassic Park, we’ve imagined what it would be like to walk among these breathtaking creatures—to come face to face with a Velociraptor, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, or Tyrannosaurus rex. We’ve all seen the fossilized varieties in museums, but for Girls on Wheels, the immersive 20,000 square foot “Jurassic World: The…
Vicki Baker A safari in Texas? No way! Yet, here Girls on Wheels (Vicki Baker, Nancy Burns, Karen Dipietro, Cassie Richardson, Susan Hebert, and Lois Reinhart) were on a wild game adventure at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. It almost felt like Africa with the great migration of millions of animals moving through the savanna. Okay,…
Vicki Baker It’s a challenge that stretches through the reaches of time and space. It’s a problem that shakes the universe to its very core. It’s the battle of hitting a tiny white ball past the grandfather clock pendulum without bouncing off the … AAAHHHHH! Whether you know your way around the links or not,…
Vicki Baker In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors had an extraordinary vision—teach the North Texas community the lessons learned from the Holocaust and memorialize the six million Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis. Their legacy, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum opened in 2019, nearly 75 years after the fall of the…
Vicki Baker So, what do four guys from California, Iowa, and Texas, have in common with four guys from New Jersey? They’re part of an energetic tribute concert dedicated to the music of the Garden State’s very own “Jersey Boys”—Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. “Oh, What a Night” for Girls on Wheels (Shirley Monge,…
Vicki Baker Elephants don’t usually come to mind when thinking of Oklahoma wildlife. We imagine buffalo, deer, and cattle, but the Sooner State is home to the second largest herd of Asian elephants in America. Girls on Wheels (Cassie Richardson, Karen DiPietro, Susan Hebert, Vicki Baker, and Nancy Burns) hit the road in search of…
Vicki Baker Visual art can be arresting, in the sense that it can stop us in our tracks and demand our attention. Poignant renderings of facial expressions, an intoxicating color, symbolism that invites our interpretation, wanting to both captivate our imagination and slow us to a meditative pace during these troubled times. Girls on Wheels entered…
Vicki Baker Walking alone in a parking lot and feeling uneasy? Getting a weird vibe from that other person standing in the elevator? Approached by a stranger while your hands are full of groceries? Many of us have been there. We live in a dangerous and, sometimes, violent world. The potential to become a victim…
Vicki Baker In this time of COVID-19, it’s difficult to find places where friends can engage in a pandemic-forced socially distanced and isolating environment. Girls on Wheels discovered the perfect opportunity to experience art and culture for the first time in over a year—Aurora’s innovative “Area 3″, where 100,000 square feet of parking garage in…
Vicki Baker The practice of blowing glass seems hip and modern if you’ve recently visited an exhibition by Dale Chihuly, but the technique has been all the rage since the Roman Empire. While new technologies introduced more modern equipment, the fundamentals of glassblowing have evolved little since then. Setting out to tackle this ancient art…