I overindulged over the long Easter holiday - not in beer - as is the local custom - but in sugar. Family from home sent us a care package of yummy chocolate bunnies, eggs and truffles. And my 16-year-old daughter has discovered baking (thanks a lot, Preppy Kitchen!). She spent
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I'm over here like Violet Crawley looking through her fan at this horrible electric lighting.
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Please make the early levels more tourist-friendly.
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Jo Kuan, the protagonist and titular Downstairs Girl, is a Chinese American teenager living in Atlanta, Georgia just after the end of the U.S. Civil War.
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I'm not wrong. It turns out menopause can break your brain.
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I love that they are promoting individual voices. Jury is still out on supporting the platform, though.
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This time last year, I made what I thought was a simple (and easy!) new year's resolution to read a total of 12 books in 2023.
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It's funny where life takes you.
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And we're back again! Here with the perennial goal of reading more books. This year, I'm going with what I hope will be an easy goal: Twelve books, one a month. As a writer and lifelong bookworm, it's embarrassing to admit that this is
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By the time I publish this post, our 1952 brick ranch on a busy Decatur corner will belong to someone else.
I am having trouble focusing on work or normal life tasks even though the conflict is on the other side of the world.
This shortage is an ongoing national problem, driving up housing costs for both buyers and renters across the country.
Otter.ai and Cube ACR Pro make my life much easier.
I have an update on Decaturish this week about the city's stalled cottage court development.
Someone said on Twitter that 2021 really came in with that "hold my beer" energy and they were not wrong.
For those of you out there who are wondering how I could not manage just two books a month when everything closed down and we were all "stuck at home."
I started regularly blogging again as a way to deal with my anxiety over the pandemic. I have always processed my thoughts best through writing. And, I wanted to keep a record of what life was like during this time.
We set up my son's desk in the dining room. In August, this will again be "school" for him, though right now it is the scene of too many Roblox marathons.
A few days later we learned that Georgia set a daily record for new cases of COVID-19.
Let's talk about real fake news. Not Donald Trump's fake news (a.k.a. news he doesn't like), but the fake news that is fiction--often crafted with malicious intent--disguised as fact.
Many black communities in DeKalb--some whose existence predates the county itself--are starting to take action to preserve historic places and knowledge that have gone unnoticed and neglected over time.
