If you know the heartbreak of triskaidekaphobia, you’re not alone! Come to the August meeting of OSFW, where members will share their stories in a supportive, nonjudgmental environment. We’ll have killer refreshments, too!
Seriously, our August meeting is this Friday, August 13, at the President’s home–directions are below. Members gather at 7PM, with the business meeting starting at 7:30. After a short business meeting, we’ll invite members to share recent works. Per our bylaws:
In order to make a reasonable attempt to enable as many members or visitors to present their works at each monthly meeting, readings should be restricted to 30 minutes, if possible. The person or member present who has not read any or part of a written work recently will be the first to read at any given meeting.
–Paragraph 10 of the Bylaws
To balance accommodating as many readers as possible and providing member feedback to readings, discussion of readings should generally occur within the 30 minutes, but may be extended at the discretion of the President.
The agenda for our business meeting is:
- Call to order by the President
- Vice President’s Report (if any)
- Treasurer’s Report (if any)
- Discussion on inviting speakers (led by President)
- Other business (if any)
The business meeting should not take more than twenty minutes, which leaves ample time for readings. Following the business meeting, we ask the Ritual Questions: Did you sell anything? Publish? Get paid? Submit? Get a good Rejection? Write? Have a GPIC-related item or other news? Bring anything to read? We then commence with readings.
Refreshments are ongoing during the proceedings. At a minimum, we will have chocolate cake, little smokies, and various chilled sodas. Let me know if you have a soda preference and we’ll try to have some on hand. Our ice maker is broken, so it would be helpful if someone brought ice.
Directions to 6609 South Chestnut Avenue, Broken Arrow.
Take the Creek Turnpike to the Aspen Avenue Exit.
Go SOUTH on Aspen Avenue approximately 0.3 miles to the stoplight.
At the light, turn RIGHT (WEST) onto Tucson/121st Avenue.
Turn LEFT (SOUTH) in 0.2 miles onto Chestnut Avenue–the first street on the left. The name of the subdivision is the Reserve at Spring Creek.
6609 South Chestnut is about 0.1 miles on your left.
Alternate routes that avoid the Turnpike.
From Midtown.
The simplest route from Midtown is to get on Riverside heading south and stay on it. South of the Creek Turnpike, it makes a long, gentle curve to the left and eventually becomes eastbound South 121st Street. You can follow this all the way to our subdivision, a little over six miles after the street becomes east-bound. From Memorial Avenue, it’s 3.9 miles to Chestnut Avenue and our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. Turn south on Chestnut, and our home is on the left after about 0.1 miles.
Many Tulsa streets also connect through to 121st Street, and so there are variations of this route depending on where you connect with 121st Street. Yale, Sheridan, and other streets further east all continue to 121st Street. Note that Harvard and Lewis dead-end and do NOT connect to 121st, while Riverside actually becomes 121st Street.
From the north via 169.
Get off 169 at 91st Street. Go east about 2.5 miles to Aspen/145th Avenue and turn RIGHT (SOUTH). Continue south on Aspen 3 miles to 121st/Tucson Avenue. Turn RIGHT (WEST) on Tucson, then in 0.2 miles turn left onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 mile on the left.
From Keifer/Glenpool
Take 67 east to US 64 (Memorial Avenue) in Bixby. Turn LEFT (NORTH) on Memorial and proceed north 3 miles. Turn RIGHT (EAST) on 121st Street/Tucson. Continue 3.9 miles to our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. At the subdivision, turn right onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 miles on the left.
Street Names in Broken Arrow.
Broken Arrow and Tulsa are now adjacent to each other, but this wasn’t always the case. Because of this, their street names are different. To help with way-finding, Broken Arrow has given most major streets two names. One is the traditional BA name, and the other is the corresponding Tulsa name. Most–but not all–street signs in Broken Arrow show both names. For the purpose of these directions, here are the dual names you need to know:
Tucson Street in BA is also 121st Street South.
Aspen Avenue in BA is also East 145th Avenue.