Category: Urban Living
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The coldest day ever
We’ve had a very frigid old snap across most of the United States. Atlanta has seen its coldest temperatures in decades. As someone who grew up in the Northeast, I can only remember a few times in my life that it’s been anywhere near this cold! There’s not much more I can say that hasn’t…
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Bees here now
The abundant rain this summer has been a huge boon for my garden. Last fall, my husband and I expanded the garden beds by creating a low rock wall border. I went a little crazy, as I usually do in spring and early summer, adding plants – mainly perennials – to the garden, and our…
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Wordless Wednesday: rose is a rose
(Photo copyright Dana Lisa Young – please do not use without express permission)
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“Chickengate” ruffles some feathers
I feel fortunate to live in City of Decatur. It’s an eclectic, fairly progressive community not far from downtown and midtown Atlanta. It has a lot of benefits of urban life – access to public transportation, public parks, walkability, great shops and restaurants – with a small town vibe. I’ve lived here for over a…
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Atlanta? Rude? Got a problem with that?
Making the rounds in the local news today is a recent story run in Travel + Leisure ranking America’s rudest cities. It turns out that the Southeast’s largest city is losing some of its trademark genteel. Atlanta ranked #11 in the poll, just shy of the top ten. At the top of the list? Los…
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