My earliest memory of home is of a pink adobe stucco in Espanola, New Mexico. We called it "The Pink House" - my memories are fleeting. Going forward we lived in lots of places including a log cabin in the Jemez Moutains of New Mexico and a shack on the beach in Baja Calfornia. I had a non-traditional upbringing, and didn't always attend school, but I was exposed to all sorts of cultures, races and languages. I wouldn't change anything my life now, and yet when I was young of often longed for 'normal life'. Living in a house, on a block was key in this 'normal life.' I also wanted to go to school, eat white bread and get bangs. My grandmother was a realtor in the Western Chicago suburbs in the 1980's. This was during a time when the real estate market was booming. She sold million dollar homes. Every summer we would visit and she would sometimes she would take me to see some of the rambling houses she had for sale. I was so inter...
The Renaissance Neighborhood is defined by 11th Street on the North, 15th Street on the South, Lewis Avenue on the West and Harvard Avenue on the East. This is the heart of midtown Tulsa.