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Monumental sculptures are ‘Moore’ than enough
Now that the hot air balloon rides, scavenger hunts, teas and cash bars have exited the opening weekend of the Henry Moore sculpture show at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, it’s a perfect time to go. You...
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Kennesaw Mountain: Now a snapshot of diversity
This week marks the 145th anniversary of the brutal Civil War battle fought at Kennesaw Mountain. What better time to take note of how one venue of that ferociously fought war to protect segregation...
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Dead Dads Dinner Keeps Memories Lively
My friend Jane Kimbrell and I just celebrated another Dead Dads Dinner. We’ve done it just about every year since 1997. Don’t get me wrong. We’re not celebrating because they’re dead…but because of the...
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Do the Math
My third and best husband and I just returned from my first husband’s fifth wedding. On the banks of the Edisto River, in South Carolina, Jack Williams married Judy Smith, in a light rain under live...
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$100 A Day — What a Giveaway!
Is it still early enough in January to be dishing about New Year’s Resolutions? Here’s an idea that’s pretty unique. Not to mention generous: giving away 100 bucks a day. Every day. For a year. You...
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Vets Honoring Vets
It was the kind of bright blue sky you find only in October as dozens of people gathered in Suwanee, Ga. to pay tribute to Thomas Joseph Rees. The obit was compelling: “Fighter by day, lover by night,...
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Rockin’ in the Free World
Ryan Means had dreamed of joining the Army since the age of six, but it was not until his childhood playmate and best buddy Adam White was killed in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers that he was...
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Public and Private Remembrances of 9/11
As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 hovers around us all this week, it’s difficult for those of us who didn’t suffer the direct hit – whether in human loss or up-close trauma – to think about how we can...
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“Everything is Copy”—an Homage to Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was forever young and forever funny. And all of a sudden, she’s gone! So many of us could relate to her writings, musings, movies and books – not to mention a failed marriage or botched...
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Visiting the Dead in the Dog Days
Each morning, we wake up to Morning Edition on NPR and usually hear a jarring barrage of campaign orations, weather reports or obituaries (recently: Helen Gurley Brown). At this rainy August dawn, I...
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Harry Stamps Says a Final Good-bye to Daylight Savings Time
Harry Stamps rests at a campsite. ‘This is a picture from my childhood with daddy at Indian Creek the campground in North Carolina,’ daughter Amanda Lewis says. ‘Note his elastic waist shorts and...
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The Tweet Side of Death
It’s been a couple of weeks since NPR host Scott Simon sat at his mother’s death bed and tweeted her final jou… from the ICU of a Chicago hospital to the great beyond. Yet there continues to be much...
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Love and Romance in Obituaries
Among the survivors, obituaries usually mention the spouse whether the “devoted wife,” “adoring husband,” “the loyal husband” or the “love of his/her life.” Occasionally, though, careful obituary...
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