Author Archives: Granger Meador
Four Measures of Personality
Hippocrates promulgated the first known personality model over 2,400 years ago, which led Galen to name four temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, which were associated with proportions of four bodily fluids. Thankfully little of that nonsense survives outside of … Continue reading
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
Meador Manor 