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HALLOWEEN CONTEST – VOTE!

Posted on October 31, 2017 by georgialeesays

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THIS MONTH I’VE BEEN SCOURING THE VILLAGE FOR GREAT HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS – THE NEIGHBORS ARE RESTLESS (AND CREATIVE – VOTE YOUR FAVORITE (disclaimer: frog below discovered in photographer’s house)

Gallery | Tagged Atlanta, att, death, decorations, FALL, frogs, ghosts, halloween, holidays, monsters, neighborhoods, neighbourhoods, pumpkins, skeletons, velvet underground | 4 Comments

OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT OUR CHILDREN…

Posted on June 9, 2015 by georgialeesays

Call me Saint Francis of Suburbia. My back yard is an official Natural Habitat. It’s easy. Go online, check off: Feeders, Water, Trees, and the like, pay $25 (yard flag) up to $100-plus (a bronze plaque) I went with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1960s, ACAA, acceptance, ACTORS, Aging, alabama, ancesters, Atlanta, atlanta braves, atlanta crackers, Atlanta native, Atlanta Writers Club, AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, babies, baby boomers, Babyboomers, back to school, baseball, birth, birthdays, books, buddha, Caregiving, cemeteries, Childhood, children's hospitals, composite characters, curses, daughters, death, depression, Emory University Hospital, family, hospitals, humor, love, parenthood | 5 Comments

MENTAL ILLNESS – a mother speaks

Posted on June 4, 2015 by georgialeesays

I’m crying as I write this. This past Easter Sunday – visiting hours at Peachford Hospital. I am alone. My son, 26, unshaven, shaking, in flip-flops and torn clothes he slept in, sits alone at a table, peeling a tangerine. … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlanta, BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD, caregivingelderly, corporate greed, DEPRESSION, Family, HELP, HOMOCIDE, HUMANA, MENTAL ILLNESS, NAMI, PEACHFORD HOSPITAL, REPUBLICANS, RIDGEVIEW, RONALD REGAN, SCHIZOPHRENIA, SUICIDE | Tagged 1960s, ACAA, acceptance, ACTORS, Aging, alabama, ancesters, Atlanta, atlanta braves, atlanta crackers, Atlanta native, Atlanta Writers Club, AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, baby boomers, Babyboomers, back to school, baseball, birth, birthdays, books, buddha, Caregiving, cemeteries, Chicago Yankee, Childhood, children's hospitals, college football, composite characters, crimson tide, curses, daughters, death, department stores, depression, Elvis Costello, Emmett Lee, Emory University Hospital, FALL, family, fiction, flowers, football, Fourth of July, Fourth of July celebration, Greatest Generation, HospiceAtlanta, hospitals, humor, joint chiefs of staff, language, lice ladies, love, Lumosity, Memorial Day, memories, minor leagues, MOON, mothers, mothers day, nostalgia, original Memorial Day letter, Orlando Bloom, parenting, PARENTS, parties, Paul McCartney, playoffs, Pluto, poem, poetry, ponce de león ball park, President Obama, public service | 7 Comments

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND EMBRACE BEING ALONE (even on your birthday)

Posted on April 14, 2015 by georgialeesays

“Since I gave up all hope, I feel so much better” – anonymous I write this on my 61st birthday. I chose to be alone, and fled to the wilderness. Rather than dancing at a drunken Bacchanal or a romantic … Continue reading →

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BRIEF CANDLES – AN HOUR ONSTAGE

Posted on March 8, 2015 by georgialeesays

At the end of life, the very old shrink into child-size imitations of the towering adults their children knew. Not my parents, I would have thought as a child, if I’d ever imagined such a thing. Not my parents. Those … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlanta, authors, baby boomers, body image, caregivingelderly, celebrities, childhood, Dying Parents, Family, Fashion, fiction, Food, hospice, Love, love and death, medical care, spirituality, Uncategorized, writers, Writing | Tagged 1960s, ACAA, acceptance, ACTORS, actresses, Aging, alabama, ancesters, Atlanta, Atlanta native, Atlanta Writers Club, baby boomers, Babyboomers, birth, birthdays, body image, books, Caregiving, cemeteries, chevrolet, Chico's, chiffon, cocktail dresses, cookies, curses, daughters, death, depression, Easy Spirit, Emmett Lee, FALL, family, fashion, Forest Park, high school, Lady Macbeth, mothers and daughters, only children, PARENTS, prom dresses, shakespeare, stephen king, thinner, weight | 10 Comments

Dreaming in Color

Posted on February 23, 2015 by georgialeesays

I dreamed that all was yellow inside their windows a pale meringue light beamed in summer kitchens morning, forever, morning Girls in sweet sun-frocks twirled lemon-laced skirts for buttoned-up, tucked-in boys The sweet-acid taste of first loves hover above, yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1960s, acceptance, ACTORS, Aging, alabama, ancesters, Atlanta, Atlanta native, Atlanta Writers Club, baby boomers, Babyboomers, birth, birthdays, books, Caregiving, Childhood, daughters, death, depression, dreams, poetry, winter, yellow | Leave a comment

Spinning Straw into Gold in the “Christ-haunted” South

Posted on December 30, 2014 by georgialeesays

As the unofficial official blogger for the Atlanta Writers Club, my first post was a delight – writing about Kimberly Brock, author of “The River Witch” winner of the Georgia Author of the Year in 2014 by the Georgia Writers … Continue reading →

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CURTAIN CALL – THE NEW FOUNTAIN THEATER

Posted on October 10, 2014 by georgialeesays

The full moon pulls me outside and I rise or fall, like the obedient tide. Each full moon has a name, you know. October is either Hunters or Harvest. I don’t feel like looking it up, but I’m going with … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlanta, buddha, caregivingelderly, childhood, Dying Parents, Family, Love, spirituality | Tagged acceptance, ACTORS, Aging, ancesters, Atlanta native, Atlanta Writers Club, baby boomers, cemeteries, Childhood, death, FALL, MOON, parenting, PARENTS, REINCARNATION, THEATER | Leave a comment

INVINCIBLE SUMMER

Posted on July 26, 2014 by georgialeesays

The Buddha, as young Prince Siddhartha, was a rich spoiled brat. His father, the king, groomed his future heir. Pampering and sheltering the prince, he kept him within the kingdom’s gates, forbidding exposure to the imperfect world beyond. Yet, like … Continue reading →

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MOTHERS DAY POST MORTEM – Birth, Death and Blue Hydrangeas

Posted on May 12, 2014 by georgialeesays

BIRTH – MAY 2, 1989 9:35 p.m. “Is he all there? Arms, legs, fingers?” First words, after an eight-pound, 23-inch ball of flesh ruptured out of me. For eight months, since that drunken Labor Day weekend before I … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlanta, Family, Love, love and death, Uncategorized | Tagged birth, cemeteries, death, flowers, love, mothers, mothers day | 5 Comments

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