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OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT OUR CHILDREN…
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
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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
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MENTAL ILLNESS – a mother speaks
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
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HOW TO BE A FAMOUS WRITER – AT THE ATLANTA WRITERS CONFERENCE
At The Atlanta Writers Conference, strife, confusion and downright frustration were recurring themes that apply not only to writers, but also to human beings, even the seemingly normal ones. “When do I get off this merry-go-round?” said one attendee … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta native, Atlanta Writers Club, books, fiction, humor, publishing, secrets, social media, women, WRITING
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RUNNING WITH AUGUSTEN
Anyone reading “Running With Scissors,” may ask – what IS this guy really like? With Augusten Burroughs, what we read is what we get. Like his writing, Augusten Burroughs is hilarious – no surprise there – yet also complex, generous, … Continue reading
CURSING U.S.A.
“Cursing USA” pt. one I hate cursing. I fucking HATE it! As an only child of educators, all through the house, not a curse word was heard, not even a “damn.” My family is Southern as sweet iced tea, … Continue reading
