Oklahoma

proxam has challenged us to write about where we live. the only condition is that we must have my home town, in the title. tulsa is a small city, oklahoma. there are about 400,000 people who live here. i grew up in north tulsa. i went to the lombard school, for six years. if you visit tulsa you can see my school, (because it is one of the landmarks of the city), and is now a street school. our first big shopping centre opened in the 1960's. it is called the osage mall. my mother couldn't drive, and i was glad that it was near our house, so i could walk there. they tore it down, because of the crime in the area, and all you'll see ...

On our recent grand American West Bus Tour we had an occassion to stop in Oklahoma.(see prior opinion for background info) We did not exactly go to Oklahoma, no one goes to Oklahoma, they pass through there, it isn't a destination, just a huge empty vaccuum in the Middle of America that people need to pass through to actually get somewhere that they want to go. What is the most succinct way to describe Oklahoma? How about this, when the United States government was content with only murdering the local heathens back in the 1820s- 1840s they decided that instead of finishing them all off they would send them to the most desolate and barren place they knew of, which, ...

Oklahoma Nooooo...not the song, the state:-) When my family moved from California to Oklahoma I was crest-fallen. I loved visiting California and the thought of swapping it for some mid west ramshackle cowboy town really did not appeal to me at all. There wasn't even a beach for 1000 miles and.....who goes to Oklahoma on holiday? Well, we did and if you get the chance, you should. One glance at my itinerary filled me with dread, a 14hour journey on my own with two children then aged four and eight. We were going to Okla for seven weeks, my husband was joining us for the last three and we would travel back together. But.....we still ...