I started with the attic on the third day of January, throwing broken suitcases and empty computer boxes down the stairway while howling like a banshee. The dog cowered as I carted ten trash bags to the lane, for once in my life piling garbage up so high I had to call 311 for a special pick-up, landfills be damned.
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‘Savannah struck’ in Ardsley Park
The benevolent hosts opened their sumptuous home for full access, allowing guests to amble around the azalea-fringed brick courtyard and through the second-floor bedrooms bedecked in vintage wallpaper.
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Lost and found on Ossabaw Island
I WAS definitely lost by the time I saw the little brown pig. The laminated map had shown a single loop trail, so simple that I’d left it on the […]
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Emmaus House: Feeding the hungry, feeding the soul
The difference between charity and service is a hairnet.
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Don’t shoot the messengers
Politically correct lip service isn’t the same thing as working towards diminishing the disparity between the cultural privilege afforded America’s white citizens and its people of color. In Savannah, there is opportunity every day to bridge that gap.
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Like lists? Here’s your harbor deepening Top Ten
Those who question the long-range consequences of SHEP believe resistance is futile. And it well may be, as a dozen lefty liberals in a church basement are hardly a threat to Georgia’s teratoid political-industrial complex.
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‘C’ is for cookie
Nobles—herself a lifelong Scout—is referring to the money management skills and business ethics absorbed by the girls as they sell. Every time you snarf up a four-dollar box of crumbly delight, you’re helping a young woman gain professional and economic footing.
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Long gone dog days of summer
August readied young minds for life’s inevitable grind with its sheer boring blankness. August built freaking character.
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Through a PRISM darkly
Corporations have been tracking our buying habits and favorite websites for years for their own gain, but no one’s tearing their hair out over a Papa John’s coupon floating on their screen for six months after they accidentally clicked on the website.
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What to do when you’re blue in the face
Ogeechee residents and activists gamely shared their concerns once again — only to have EPD director Judson Turner dismiss their time and tears as “white noise.”