This past Saturday, before heading to the Indigenous protest of the Land Run Monument in Bricktown, I decided to stop for breakfast at the recently renovated and newly reopened Old School Bagel Café, 10946 N. May Ave., mostly because they’re the best joint around town to get good bagels with plenty of lox and cream cheese on them.
You see, when I was a small child, my father was a cop in Houston, Texas. When he was off-duty, he’d sometimes act as security for a local synagogue that had been getting threats from random anti-Semitic types. They’d usually let my dad bring home leftover bagels with lox, cream cheese and so on; I would hope and pray he’d grab me a full one with onions, tomatoes and capers.