Author Archives: Granger Meador

About Granger Meador

I enjoy day hikes, photography, podcasts, reading, web design, and technology. My wife Wendy and I work in the Bartlesville Public Schools in northeast Oklahoma, but this blog is outside the scope of our employment.

It tasks me, it heaps me, an inscrutable malice sinews it

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Granger Meador

August 21, 2021 We have begun another school year battered and bruised but not broken by COVID-19. Vaccines now shield most of my colleagues and loved ones from hospitalization and death, even as the Delta variant, pandemic fatigue, and pathological … Continue reading →

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Prix de West 2021

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Granger Meador

June 18, 2021 | Photo Album We ventured to Oklahoma City to celebrate Father’s Day with my parents. One of the countless fun things my 96-year-old father has introduced me to is the annual Prix de West art show and … Continue reading →

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The Misty Mountain

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Granger Meador

June 2021 | Photo Album Until June, our 2021 travels were restricted to a brief visit with my parents in Oklahoma City and trips to and from Checotah, Oklahoma to arrange for and attend the funeral for Wendy’s mother. It … Continue reading →

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My spiky crystal ball

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Granger Meador

April 25, 2021 Soon the Pandemic Response Committee I chair in our school district will conduct its 50th meeting since March 6, 2020. I provide this overview of our experience as we enter a welcome new phase of the pandemic: … Continue reading →

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Pandemic Pastimes

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Granger Meador

December 5, 2020 Wendy and I are concluding the ninth month of a contracted lifestyle during the COVID-19 pandemic. I expect we face at least six more months of daily masking, distancing, and hand hygiene at work. We’re probably going … Continue reading →

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