Author Archives: Granger Meador
A Return to Meador Manor
Back in 1982, my first personal computer was equipped with a 300 baud modem, and I was a high school student who was also a subscriber to the online services CompuServe and Dow Jones News/Retrieval. I also discovered bulletin board … Continue reading
Avoiding the Nostalgia Trap
This week they really got going on destroying the old convention center in Oklahoma City. There was a dramatic photograph showing the arena bowl half destroyed, and then they brought the remaining roof down. At the start of 2025, I … Continue reading
A Quixotic Baptist
In 1930, Thornton Wilder jotted down, “Ideas for Novels or Novellas — Picaresque: Baptist ‘Don Quixote.’ Selling educational textbooks through Texas, Oklahoma.” The result was his 1934 comic novel Heaven’s My Destination. He began serious work on it at the … Continue reading
The Dutch House
After J.L. Carr’s short and moving novella A Month in the Country, I remained in the mood for something of “quality” to read. Don’t get the wrong impression; I have always enjoyed genre books, being an avid consumer of mysteries … Continue reading
Western Village in Millennial Gray
Real estate websites have a secondary function as time machines since when properties are marketed for resale we may catch glimpses into houses we left long ago. The home my parents built in 1962 was “flipped” in 2022. I lived … Continue reading
