Author Archives: Granger Meador
My Cultural Ignorance
There are several cultural touchstones I remain rather ignorant of, despite countless references to them throughout my six decades of existence. Peter Pan, for example. As a child, I ate plenty of his peanut butter, saw the animated Tinker Bell … Continue reading
Wilder’s Forgotten Award Winner
Thornton Wilder is still widely remembered for his 1938 play Our Town, and his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, won the Pulitzer in 1927 and made Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the 20th … Continue reading
Oklahoma’s Education Struggles
This is a lengthy post about Oklahoma’s public schools. I’ll explore the state’s low rankings and delve into its history of student testing and achievement, student poverty, and finally school spending and taxation. I expect this might be my final … Continue reading
Surviving the culture wars
Culture wars and identity politics, initially amplified by broadcast media and now metastasized by social media, corrode our quality of life. Recently Judith Martin and her children Nicholas and Jacobina, writing in their Miss Manners column, shared this take: The … Continue reading
Simplifying Our Home Theater
A lightning strike prompted me to simplify our home theater. The bolt early one morning struck quite close to our house, disrupting our next door neighbor’s telephone landline wiring and one of its attached telephones. I had to reboot both … Continue reading
