Sidewalks

Tulsa and Oklahoma City, the two largest cities in Oklahoma, do not boast a great many sidewalks. In the neighborhoods, that is on no consequence, because it generally isn't any trouble to walk in the street with some attention to one's surroundings. Today I took a walk from 45th and May to Baptist Hospital, a distance of approximately two miles. I passed through parking lots, over uneven grass and on streets - streets that boasted either cars zooming dangerously close or construction. I counted my steps on all the available sidewalk... and came to 63. That is nothing to boast of, for sure.
The real question is, why not? Oklahoma City has begun a program called OKC Million - encouraging the city to collectively lose a million pounds. I hate the gym, so what else can I do? My husband takes the car to work - yes, we have three, but one is sick and the other is smoky - so I can't take myself up to the Lake to walk... and I have a three year old child, besides. Interesting.

Oklahoma

The middle of nowhere - maybe. I am always amazed by what outsiders think of Oklahoma. All over the world, questions come hard and fast about us - nearly everyone has heard of it since the bombing in 1995.
The bombing has more or less been put in the past with that amazing ability many Americans have to forget, which is probably best. Oklahoma, though, is not the usual impression that outsiders have from the news and from stories.
That is what this blog is going to be about - what it is like to be from Oklahoma, to still be living here even after I'm ready to leave - from the perspective of a twenty-five year old girl.