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Quit Calling Me

Do “robo calls” convince you to vote for a particular candidate? With the local Atlanta only a few weeks away, I keep getting calls from mayoral and city council candidates. On both my cell and LAN line [yes I still have one of those]. It’s getting old and, quite frankly, they don’t really influence me. [...]

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Today the Daily Beast reported that Atlanta is the number 1 BEST city for (presumably) women to meet single, educated men. My first question was What the hell? My second thought was Where they at? Most of the single men I know are batting for the other team or are not interested in putting a [...]

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This past Friday, I took an excursion to Jazz Journeys at the Georgia Aquarium. On Friday nights this summer, the aquarium is featuring a multitude of jazz artists. With a five-dollar cocktail in hand, I enjoyed the jazzy ministrations of Francine Reed and visited the exhibits. Because the concert goes from 7 to 9:30 and [...]

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Mother Nature has been having her way with us lately. On Sunday night and Monday morning, Atlanta had record-breaking wind gusts creating havoc all over the city, including uprooting trees causing property damage and causing power outages for tens of thousands of customers. A big oak tree fell in my parents’ yard, upended their back [...]

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Springtime in the ATL

Spring has arrived to Atlanta.  Only a few weeks ago we were reeling from tornado watches, flash floods, and [dare I say it] snow.  Now the Dogwoods are in bloom, there is an ever so thin layer of yellow dust on my metallic grey car, and folks are sneezing in their short sleeves.  Nights are [...]

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So today I came home to find the fire hydrant behind my condo complex gushing water.  Someone had put a cone by it and an “out of service” sign, but no one bothered to shut the water off.  I can’t tell you how many times that hydrant has been broken and empty or broken and [...]

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So, like any self-respecting woman, I hate pantyhose.  Yet they are a necessary evil of my profession when I’m all suited up and looking lawyerly.  But buying pantyhose is almost as painful as wearing them, especially as a woman of color.  I finally found a brand I like, in a shade I like, at a [...]

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