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Better get your flu shot
After three glorious days on St. Simons Island, Elizabeth Plyler arrived home with a splitting headache and a temperature that had spiked to 104.It was Tuesday, just hours after Labor Day, so she went to school only to find herself in the nurse’s office. The headache was getting worse. At ...
After four suicides, a school and community begins the healing process
The wooden hearts once planted on the lawn of Milton High are gone now, replaced by a memorial at the school’s entrance, a somber reminder that life doesn’t stretch on forever. Sometimes life stops at age 16. Seven months ago that might have seemed like an impossibility at Milton High ...
McMillan returns with ‘Who Asked You?’
She has had an enjoyable string of best-sellers. Remember “Getting to Happy,” “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”? Remember “Mama”?Well, you won’t likely forget Terry McMillan’s “Who Asked You?” either.In its 383 pages, McMillan introduces us to Betty Jean Butler, the rock of an African-American family ...
Lowery prepared to mark a birthday as others celebrate his legacy
Two Sundays from now, the Rev. Joseph Lowery will gather with admirers and well-wishers to celebrate his 92nd birthday. To some, his age renders him just an old man, but nary a day passes when Lowery isn’t busy preaching and prodding America toward her best self. Still, he admits time ...
Company throws 40-ton weight behind breast cancer awareness
The pink construction crane had been in service for nearly two weeks when Jessica Ives learned her mother had breast cancer. Suddenly, the campaign by her employer, Phoenix Crane Rental, to help raise awareness of breast cancer, and Ives’ job of operating the pink crane, seemed much more personal. “I ...
Back in the game after a non-traumatic brain injury
For most of her life, sports loomed large in Andee Poulos’ life. She was an avid softball player and swimmer. But just four days into 2011 Poulos was suddenly sidelined. An arteriovenous malformation, an abnormal connection she was born with between arteries and veins in her brain, ruptured and at ...
Overdue validation in a crown and honorary degrees
In just the past few weeks, there have been dozens of stories in the news centered around African American history.The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. The role the Freedom Singers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee played in the movement. And Georgia Rep. John Lewis’ debut as a ...
Roby, author of the Rev. Curtis Black series, to appear at Decatur Book Festival
Kimberla Lawson Roby was in elementary school the first time a teacher noticed her gift for writing. It was a compliment that followed her through junior high and college. You really should consider a career in writing, they told her. But instead of writing, Roby, 48, chose business administration and ...
A bus, two trains and an airplane to a future
His clothes were still wet and he was chilled to the bone, but it didn’t matter. Tayvon Snowden had come to celebrate, and no rainstorm was about to dampen his spirits. “Wait till I tell you what happened, but I’m good,” he told his parents as they arrived at the ...
Heroine of the hour credits faith
The day before that fateful encounter, Antoinette Marie Tuff was deep into a Bible study series about making God the immovable anchor in her life. In times of storms, in the midst of hardship and pain, she was being asked to seek her God for the stability, guidance and security ...
Tintype photography making a comeback
As he sat in yet another airport waiting to board a plane, Josiah Morgan powered up his laptop to see what the universe held about lenses. One click led to another and another until finally he happened upon a history of optics and wet plate collodion, a photographic process once ...
Alzheimer’s patients need specialized help
Any day now, Joni Poulos will help her father move into his new place at Autumn Leaves, easing a burden she has carried since she discovered he suffered from dementia. “The minute they say we can move in, we’re gone,” she said. Poulos is one of a growing number of ...
Marching on
Ken Sprague positioned himself about midway between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, oblivious not only to the privileges his white skin afforded him, but to the importance and urgency of the historic gathering. He considered the March on Washington an “event” and he’d made the 516-mile drive from ...
Beware of backpack risks
Even if you’re not a parent of school-aged children, the traffic and returning road rage has signaled the beginning of a new school year.But what may not be common knowledge, even to parents, doctors say, are the risks associated with lugging around heavy backpacks.According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...
‘March’ takes civil rights legend into new medium
Funny how some things are born.One moment, Rep. John Lewis’ staff is laughing at the idea of one of his aides attending a comic book convention. And the next, the Georgia Democratic congressman and the aide, Andrew Aydin, are co-writing a comic book detailing Lewis’ role in the civil rights ...
Eye check-ups an important back to school item
With the beginning of a new school year, parents thoughts naturally turn to shopping: new clothes, new binders and No. 2 pencils. And, while eye check-ups may not fall on their collective “to do” lists, it should be — roughly 80 percent of a child’s learning is done visually. Hence, ...
Oh Baby! Fitness expanding
Eight years have passed since Clare Schexnyder’s daughter, Sofia, was born. Eight. And in that time, the Decatur mother has almost single-handedly transformed the way pregnant and new mothers in metro Atlanta stay fit – physically and emotionally. Now she and Kathleen Donahoe, co-owner of Atlanta-based Oh Baby! Fitness, are ...
Using prose to change lives
The news that morning weighed heavy on Hank Stewart. But it wasn’t the carjacking or the floods washing over the Midwest or even the string of murders that settled in his throat. It was this:NBA great Magic Johnson had just announced he was HIV positive. It was Nov. 7, 1991, ...
Contest promotes awareness of severe allergic reactions
Within five minutes of popping a chocolate nut cluster in her mouth one day last year, Kristen Valentine Jenschke’s daughter Jenna was in a fight for her life. Her throat and mouth itched. Her eyelids swelled. Red blotchy spots covered her face. By the time Jenschke figured out Jenna had ...
More kids find bridge suits them
Arjun Dhir sat at a rear table at the Alpharetta Duplicate Bridge Club, red bidding boxes at his elbows, and talked about, well, his love of bridge. The Johns Creek High School graduate from Alpharetta has been extolling the virtues of the game, honing his social and reasoning skills and ...
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