Author Archives: Granger Meador
Thrilling & Manipulative
These days the U.S. adult genre fiction market perhaps breaks down into about 2/5 romance, 1/3 crime/mystery/thrillers, and 1/4 science fiction/fantasy. Within the second genre group, I’m much more interested in mysteries than modern thrillers. Years ago I did enjoy … Continue reading
Retirement HD Radio
Back in March 2026, I reviewed the various radio receivers I used from childhood through the early 2000s. I documented my failed attempt to revive my 2003 Cambridge Soundworks 730 clock radio, and how I eventually created automations for our … Continue reading
The Diffusion of Innovations
Back in 1957, the Diffusion of Innovations theory was developed by Joe M. Bohlen, George M. Beal and Everett M. Rogers at Iowa State University. It was originally applied to agriculture and home economics, but it was later applied across … Continue reading
Living Where East Meets West
Oklahoma has an unusual amount of geographic diversity. Contrary to ignorant images of a giant dustbowl, the state has low rolling mountains and dense pine forests, cypress swamps, and tall grass prairies, as well as the expected flat and arid … Continue reading
Bartlesville in the State of Sequoyah
Alternate histories have been a literary trope for over two thousand years. Livy posed the question, in Parts 17-19 of Book 9 of his From the Founding of the City, “What would have been the results for Rome if she … Continue reading
Meador Manor 