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Some personal news
Frozen custard has long been a passion of mine — a passion I’m thrilled to soon share with Atlanta.
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The Warmth of the Sun
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Look down at the pollen swirls
I love the patterns of yellow pollen after a rain storm. It’s often like a satellite image of rock formations. Pollen’s beauty, its role in creating the global food supply and the viability of life on earth almost make up for the seasonal allergies. Almost.
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Child and dog in the backseat
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Relieving my excess liquidity
12 years ago I visited Kenya for CARE to learn about how its community savings programs were going digital. The groups save money together and make loans to members of the group to buy things like seeds, tools, or to make school tuition payments that come due before the harvest. Before the harvest is when…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
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Thank you, Burt Bacharach
From the finest living interpreter of the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, this is Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head in a medley with Five Little Monkeys. Thank you Burt Bacharach and Hal David for more songs and recordings I love that anyone whose name isn’t Paul McCartney or Andy Partridge.
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It doesn’t get better than this
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There’s a new picture of downtown Atlanta emerging—but who will it be for?
For the January 2023 issue of Atlanta Magazine I spoke to the Darin Givens (@ATLUrbanist), Bem Joiner (Atlanta Influences Everything), Kelly Parry (Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association) and Rohit Malhotra (Center For Civic Innovation and the pending makeover of Downtown Atlanta and who the neighborhood should be for. A snippet: Why has the intown residential influx…