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Last Sunday night, I teetered on the edge of my seat in front of the TV as two seventh-generation members of the Flying Wallendas successfully traversed a 1,300-foot tightrope strung 25 stories above Times Square. While harnessed to a wire above them, they had eschewed a net. It took Nik and his sister, Lijana, 37…
Our good-natured competition began in 1985, when she still lived in Georgia. We’d been hired as junior editors within months of each other at Communications Channels, a magazine publishing house in Atlanta. We were young and living in a big city with new, exciting jobs. Life was good. Then it got better. My new friend…
My friend scored me a seat directly in front of the speaker at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet the other night. I was blessed to hear Dan Reeves deliver his perspective on life from a football champion’s point of view. He had played for the University of South Carolina and the Dallas Cowboys. He’d…
Last night, I watched the closing ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics with tears in my eyes, reminiscing about the three years I served as BellSouth Telecommunications’ manager-Olympic Programs for the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. We can poke fun at ourselves about the hair-frizzing humidity, hip-bruising holsters containing the latest technology (pager, walkie talkie…
I’m a HUGE football fan . . . SEC football, that is. I graduated from the University of Georgia and proudly call myself a Bulldog. I can bark with the best of them. Georgia fans have started a new tradition at the beginning of the fourth quarter—doesn’t matter whether we’re home or away. We flick…
We hold season tickets to the University of Georgia Bulldog home games and usually attend at least one away game each year. We had season tickets to the Atlanta Falcons home games, but gave them up after several colossally frustrating seasons. Between the three-hour, round-trip commutes and the predictable loses, we gave up. But, the…