Oklahoma City, a place I have never visited as an adult until yesterday, was always just a placeholder in my mind – where my great aunts live(d), a prairie town eager to be a metropolis, an awkward entity in a number of ways (a city located in a state where cities are despised as saltmills for the liberal and heathens of the world). Of my native-born extended family, this is the city where most of them have lived. ..read more
Can you believe this building was bulldozed?
I don’t even like to drive down to San Antonio anymore, for half the reason I enjoyed it was seeing the Adams Extract building all alone on the prairie, commanding a strong presence with its post-war industrial optimism. It must have been demolished sometime after 2003, because if I had been living here while it happened I certainly would have made a stink, at least a supine complaint in the form of a ..read more
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I am heading to San Antonio to visit some relatively distant …relatives. To be more precise, Boerne. I haven’t any clue what Boerne is like, only that it seems to be a rather conservative escape conduit for upper-middle-class white people who feel the need to vacate San Antonio. Either way, family is family, and I haven’t seen these folks in at least 5 years, maybe as long as 9 or 10 years. That means I might shave my ..read more
