Georgia
January 10, 2010
- As a little girl I grew up on the south side of Macon. Anyone from Macon will tell you it's a pretty rough place to grow up. I lived there from the time I was five until I hit the tender age of eleven. Then we moved up to what was seen as at the time the "better side of the area". We went from Bruce school, Mr.B's, and Powell’s Pharmacy to Rocky Creek Foods, Jessie Rice, and Colony ...
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January 7, 2010
- Nobody bent, twisted, teased, elongated, and strung out words to create such beautiful, elegant, and harrowing images as Vic Chesnutt. Vic Chesnutt of Athens, Georgia. Now Vic is dead. Dead by his own hands. Killed by who knows what, but haunted to the end by our crazy and cruel system of health (un)care. (That though is another story -- but one that needs to be talked about.) The ...
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December 22, 2009
- Lisa and I met as we landed at Salt Lake City airport. We hit the ground with a jolt. A moment before we'd been flying through whiteness, and from my window seat I had seen . . . nothing.No depth. No space. No sky. No ground. It was as if we were buried. Or else suspended. And then all at once, the earth caught me under the chin and I let out a little cry."First time landing in this kind of ...
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November 21, 2009
- Georgia is among 28 states considered to be a right to work state, which really means your employer has free rein to fire you without concern of a backlash from unions, lower wages and benefits, diminished standards of living, and no job security. In a sense this translates into fear among employees and abusive relations in the workplace. So when I attended orientation for a new job at one of the ...
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October 26, 2009
- The ancient stories told through the work of Savannah, Georgia, artist Phil Starks unfolded in a very modern setting with the opening of his Gaia Earth Goddess and Her 7 Matriarchal Daughters exhibition, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 19, 2009, at the Savannah State University (SSU) Art Gallery. Starks has participated in a number of group shows over the past few years, including ...
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October 22, 2009
- My favourite city used to be Venice, my wife and I went there on our honeymoon. The light of the city was breathtaking, the history and culture almost too much to take in, the food divine, the locals beautiful. It really is the gem in Italy' s Adriatic coast.My wife and I love Italy so much but we decided to go for a polar opposite. We thought about Saint Petersburg, Russia but thought it would ...
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October 13, 2009
- It's Deli Day at Temple Israel. In the community hall the stage is piled thick and close with white paper bags, each bag containing a wrapped corned-beef sandwich, a container of slaw, a pickle, and some mustard. The corned beef has been flown in from New York City. The bags emerge from offstage--the Temple's kitchen--and are deposited in white clusters like folded swans along the proscenium's ...
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September 14, 2009
- Kudzu-covered trees line the roadways with leafy green cathedrals. Eye lids close against our will against our will in the heavy September heat and we shake ourselves back awake. We are in Georgia to watch grandaughter Geri Ann and the Oconee High School softball team.Two opening games Friday at the annual Veteran Memorial Park Invittional were comfortably cool, but the three Saturday games were ...
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July 31, 2009
- A transplanted northerner, I lived until very recently in bucolic Upatoi, Georgia. Unlike the city-folk in nearby Columbus whose homes sit as close as two Alabama cousins, Upatoians tend to opt for two acres and a pool. My middle-class neighborhood of Ridgewood Estates--a community of mainly 1970's and 1980's eclectic-style homes--had as its centerpiece a large, beautiful, white antebellum ...
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June 17, 2009
- For the past almost two decades, I have found myself frequently inspired by the work of artist Luther E. Vann, so much so that essays and poetry derived from meditations on his metaphysical paintings and sculpture eventually helped produce the book ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love. Last summer (2008) thousands of visitors to the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, ...
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