Digital Articles

This collection features Susan Percy’s published work that remains accessible online, spanning topics from politics and public policy to culture, health, and leadership. Each article reflects her clear-eyed reporting and thoughtful analysis, offering a window into the issues and individuals shaping Georgia and the region.

Georgia Trend

The Apostle of Democracy

When Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1971 as Georgia’s 76th governor, he famously announced, “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. No poor, rural, weak or Black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job or simple justice.”

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My Show Of Shows: The Night Louis Armstrong Redeemed Athens

A brisk February evening in 1965 was not a bad time to be a 20-year-old University of Georgia student heading to the Georgia Coliseum for a concert, but it was truly special when the featured performer was the legendary Louis Armstrong.

13 Jun 2024

UGA's Grady College

The Last Word

The first column I ever wrote for Georgia Trend was put together hurriedly in the aftermath of 9/11, a rambling patchwork of observations about shopping for American flags and trying to regain some equilibrium. It ran in the October 2001 issue.

31 Jan 2022

Right Time, Right Cause

We have a little breathing room – finally. With the testy legislative redistricting process behind us and the likely-to-be rancorous state elections still down the road a bit, the regular 2022 General Assembly session, which begins this month, offers an opportunity to address Georgia’s mental health needs.

31 Dec 2021

Deconstructing the Year

It’s tempting to say that the best thing about the year 2021 is that it’s almost over and we get to start again next month with a (sort of) clean slate. Except that’s not entirely true. In the triage system of evaluation for any year, this one particularly, there’s the good, the bad and the rest of it, all contributing to the final ranking.

29 Nov 2021

Let’s Do Better – Please

It’s a good thing for the morally bankrupt and intellectually compromised individuals who disrupted a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in north Georgia last summer and forced its closure that they did not have to explain themselves to a good Georgia mother like mine. Same for those anti-science hooligans elsewhere in the state who threatened to “track down” or otherwise harm public health workers attempting to do their jobs.

31 Oct 2021

Autumn of Our Discontent

My view of fall as a time of renewal and revitalization is being challenged this year, and I suspect I’m not alone in feeling that way.

30 Sep 2021

How Will We Get There?

This time last year, most of us were worried, in varying degrees, about COVID, about the upcoming elections, about the harsh truths we were confronting in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and about crime. And wondering when and how we would get through it all.

30 Aug 2021

The Mountain

Growing up in DeKalb County, I knew Stone Mountain pretty well – the world’s largest exposed granite outcropping, formed more than 300 million years ago by volcanic pressure inside the Earth. It was a familiar landmark visible from roadways and other vantage points throughout the area.

30 Jul 2021

A Shot in the Arm

The trajectory of the COVID-19 vaccines fromneedtodone dealwas a near-miraculous achievement. In less than a year, the global scientific community developed and tested the vaccines, and business and governmental entities effected their production and distribution – all despite some pretty formidable obstacles.

28 Jun 2021

Courage and Change

When I am feeling discouraged about the direction of Georgia’s General Assembly and the lawmakers who passed an elections bill (SB 202) that is, at best, a solution in search of a problem and, at worst, an effort to make it harder to vote, I remind myself that the same group of legislators also voted, near-unanimously, to revamp the state’s archaic citizen’s arrest bill.

31 May 2021

The Backlash

Even if the intention of those who drafted, supported and voted for SB 202, now a Georgia law drastically changing how elections are conducted in the state, was simply to make those elections more secure – which I find hard to believe – surely it is time to recognize that’s not what they have done. They’ve created a monster.

30 Apr 2021

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Advantage, Georgia

No doubt, there are people out there not happy about the 2020 election that turned our state blue and the January runoff that sent two Georgia Democrats to the U.S. Senate. I get it. Losing is hard.

31 Mar 2021

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The Blessings of Friendship

Every Sunday evening since March, at about 6:00, I have poured myself a glass of wine and “dialed” into a Zoom call with a group of people I used to dine with regularly. It has become the anchor for my week, a closing out of the weekend and a warmup for the seven days to come.

26 Feb 2021

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The Time Dividers

Most people over the age of 25 can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when they learned of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Those of us with a few more years to count have the same clarity about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, just as our parents never forgot how and where they heard that Pearl Harbor had been bombed in 1941.

01 Feb 2021

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Ready for Normal

The year 2020 brought a lot of crazy – along with a lot of sadness, a lot of disruption and a lot of heartbreak. Topping the crazy list was the end to the presidential election: a defeated candidate refusing to acknowledge the will of the electorate and clinging pathetically to power.

01 Jan 2021

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A Time to Heal

With the long, arduous election season mostly behind us – we Georgians still have two important U.S. Senate runoffs coming up in January – it’s time to look ahead. Our new leaders have set a hopeful, positive tone. I hope and pray the rest of the nation will follow.

01 Dec 2020

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What if?

Suppose, when the dust settles and all the votes are counted, we wake up one nice, cool early-November morning to find that the contentious election season of 2020 is finally behind us, and we have a result that makes us proud?

01 Nov 2020

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The Waiting Game

Even the most optimistic among us have conceded that things are looking different than we had expected or hoped now that fall is finally here. Sure, the weather is cooler, the days are shorter and sweaters are out of their plastic storage boxes, but nothing is quite the same as it was last fall or the one before that.

01 Oct 2020

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Workspace Reboot

The work-from-home phenomenon that escalated out of necessity last spring, when so many employees had to adjust to working at their dining room tables or on their living room couches, gave us, among many other things, glimpses into the homes of doctors, teachers, TV reporters and others.

31 Aug 2020

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Science Rules

Despite the fact that my chemistry lab partner and I came perilously close to starting a fire in our high school classroom when one of our experiments didn’t quite work, I am a fan of science – a huge fan, actually.

01 Aug 2020

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Protests and Protesters

The distance from my living room couch to Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park is just under seven miles, but it felt both nearer and farther away as I sat there watching TV coverage of the first night of the local protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.

01 Jul 2020

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The Other Side

The branches on the old willow oak that soars a good 60 feet outside my front window were practically bare the day, many weeks ago, that the world – and I – got serious about facing the enormity of the COVID-19 pandemic and accepting it as a governing force in our lives.

01 Jun 2020

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Strong Women

My first meeting with a super-strong woman occurred the morning I was born, when I was officially introduced to my mother. I arrived a bit ahead of schedule, but she was ready – and never missed a beat thereafter, not even when she was widowed at a young age and left to raise a six-year-old daughter by herself.

01 May 2020

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Respecting Traditions

I’m a pushover for traditions, rituals, customs – even a little pomp and circumstance every now and then. All those things, I believe, strengthen families, communities and countries. They enrich our private lives and lend stability to our public institutions.

31 Mar 2020

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Leveling the Field

The promise of free public education is one of the best things we have going – K-12 schooling for every child, complete with good teachers, well-maintained facilities, meaningful curriculum and all the support needed so students can take full advantage of what is offered and, ultimately, be prepared to enter the workforce.

29 Feb 2020

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SNAP, Again?

A surefire and apparently irresistible way for Washington officials to flex their muscles is to go after the nation’s food stamp program. Officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the program had its beginnings back in 1939 to reduce poverty and food insecurity.

30 Jan 2020

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Come Together

The word gets bandied about a good bit, but real bipartisanship seems to be in pretty short supply these days. When it shows up, it’s usually a watered-down version in the form of legislation endorsing safe boating or puppy adoption.

01 Jan 2020

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Healthy Wish List

Despite being well over the age limit for Santa visits, I can’t resist coming up with an end-of-year wish list, much of it focusing on health for family, friends and a lot of people I don’t know.

01 Dec 2019

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Welcome Season

For me, there are two official harbingers of the oh-so-welcome, what-took-you-so-long? fall season: the first UGA football game and the scent of cinnamon brooms in my local supermarket.

01 Nov 2019

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Do Something

From the long hot summer of horrifying and generally dispiriting news, there is a whole troubling series of images I can’t get out of my head...

01 Oct 2019

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Where Are the Grownups?

The first time I was ever completely alone with my now-grown daughter was in the hospital where she was born. When she began to cry, the thing that popped immediately into my head was a hope that some responsible adult would show up and take care of things.

31 Aug 2019

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Don’t Go, Please

Practically every parent alive has at least one recollection of trying to get out the door for a day’s work or an overnight trip with a teary-eyed two-year-old clinging to a leg, pleading, “Don’t go!”

01 Aug 2019

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Spirited Slogans

The old Atlanta slogan that proclaimed it “The World’s Next Great International City” seemed a bit more aspirational than realistic for the first few years it was floating around in the early 1970s.

01 Jul 2019

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Georgia, Georgia

A few years ago, when I was helping move my daughter into her freshman dormitory in our nation’s capital and busily unloading boxes from the car, a man who had just alighted from his New Jersey-tagged vehicle with a yippy little dog wandered over, nodded hello, looked at my license plate and said astutely, “Oh, you’re from down there in Georgia.”

02 Jun 2019

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An Empty Glass

If you are a glass-half-full person, you might be able to look back on the 2019 General Assembly session and focus on some good-faith efforts to make life better for a significant number of Georgians, especially relating to voting and healthcare.

01 May 2019

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Keep Them Safe

Twenty years ago this month, the meaning of “school safety” changed forever the day that two troubled Colorado high school seniors killed 13 people and injured 23 more at Columbine High School in Littleton, a Denver suburb, then took their own lives.

01 Apr 2019

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Don’t Mess This Up

Right at the top of the list of good things Georgia has going for it is a booming film and entertainment industry – worth about $9.5 billion a year.

02 Mar 2019

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The High-water Mark

The high-drama moment of the Great Decatur Condominium Flood of December 2018, for me, came at 6:00 a.m. on a dark, rainy Saturday just made for sleeping in.

01 Feb 2019

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The To-do List

After a long season of elections, recounts, runoffs, challenges and lawsuits, here comes the inauguration of a new governor, Brian Kemp; the swearing in of some new Constitutional officers and state lawmakers; and the beginning of a new General Assembly session.

31 Dec 2018

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Targets and Truths

Events of this past fall – the Kavanaugh hearings in D.C., the midterm elections and even state and local campaigns here in Georgia – have unleashed a wide range of fears, concerns and predictably, gratuitous attacks on “the media.”

01 Dec 2018

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Unity? Yes, Please

Before November is a week old, we will know who is going to lead our state for the next four years: Democrat Stacey Abrams, who would be the first black female governor in the country, or Republican Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state.

31 Oct 2018

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Atlanta’s Airport

No real surprise that the last legislative session produced an attempted state takeover of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

01 Oct 2018

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More Water Wars

The summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the long-running water war between Georgia and neighboring Florida – with Alabama occasionally holding Florida’s coat – didn’t resolve anything. It merely kicked the can down the road in a cloud of legalese.

29 Aug 2018

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The Fear Factor

It’s been a while, but I recall sitting in the food court of a local mall with my husband and daughter and a friend of hers one evening when a group of 11- or 12-year-old African-American boys showed up. They were noisy, even a bit rowdy, but not threatening. I probably wondered if they were there by themselves and maybe even wished they’d turn the volume down.

01 Aug 2018

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Community and Connectivity

Like it or not, most of us belong to the community of folks who know that their experiences in customer-service purgatory, however frustrating, are beyond boring – yet simply cannot stop talking about them.

01 Jul 2018

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Punishing the Poor

Why, I wonder, when there is no shortage of real problems to deal with, do some in power choose to spend time launching attacks on poor people?

01 Jun 2018

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Leading the Way

You pretty much knew that the young people who mobilized in the wake of the Parkland shootings would be attacked by those who feared that their resolve and their outrage would become the nationwide movement that it now is. But the callousness and scope of the assaults still came as something of a shock.

01 May 2018

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House and Home

At a home décor store, I watched a woman carefully put together a dried floral arrangement, select an appropriate vase, then take it all to her husband for his approval.

02 Apr 2018

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It All Connects

Any discussion of public schools in Georgia quickly expands to cover a whole lot more than what happens in the classroom.

01 Mar 2018

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OK, What Next?

Hard to believe it was just a few months ago that we were shocked by accusations of sexual misconduct on the part of Harvey Weinstein, a major Hollywood power: incidents that ranged from “mere” groping to actual rape and a great deal in between.

31 Jan 2018

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Symbols and Causes

Despite a lot of time spent in Decatur – I grew up there and recently returned as a resident – I couldn’t remember exactly where the controversial Confederate monument was or what it looked like.

31 Dec 2017

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Targeting Safety

There was a time when the word safety brought to mind the white-belted boys (and it was always boys, never girls) in my elementary school who ascended to the lofty rank of Safety Patrol members. It was their job to assist fellow students with after-school street crossings and carpool departures, supplementing the work of the police officer stationed in front of our yellow-brick building.

01 Dec 2017

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Dream a Little Dream

So let me be sure I have this right: Just weeks after President Donald Trump announces his intention to toughen immigration laws to favor those with English proficiency and good job prospects, he rescinds DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that offered protection, including renewable work permits, for young people brought illegally to America as children prior to 2007.

01 Nov 2017

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Dealing with Accumulated Stuff

There comes a point in every house-moving process when you just plain hit a wall. Mine occurred on a Tuesday morning late in the summer while I was surrounded by things that needed packing and boxes to pack them in, and I suddenly ran out of gas. Couldn’t get started.

01 Oct 2017

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Backward and Forward

Now that we’ve had our fill of complaining about the long, rainy summer – which makes a nice change from complaining about the long, dry summers of years past – we can look ahead to the prospect of fall and the pleasures of lower power bills, pumpkin carving, school carnivals, SEC football, leaf-raking, an Atlanta mayoral election and too many early Christmas decorations.

01 Sep 2017

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Let’s Pop Some Bubbles

I haven’t run across any of those treacherous old-fashioned hatpins since the days my grandmother used them to secure her black pillbox to her head for Sunday morning church-going purposes, but I wouldn’t mind seeing them make a comeback – with an entirely different use.

01 Aug 2017

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Security and Insecurities

The first time a house I lived in was broken into, I was outraged, incredulous and indignant. When it happened again, earlier this year – different house, different neighborhood, different time of life, I was annoyed. Grumpy, actually. Was it really my turn again?

03 Jul 2017

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Heroes and Warriors

Funny how real superheroes don’t come with capes or masks or arsenals of high-tech gadgetry. The powers they rely on are compassion, humanity and commitment. And there’s a lot more humility than bravado.

01 Jun 2017

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Speaking Freely

You’d have to look pretty hard and pretty far to find anyone who’s not a fan of the First Amendment. It provides some of our most valued protections: freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, along with the right to practice our religion and petition our government. That’s a lot of protection.

30 Apr 2017

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Food and Friends

The year I lived in San Francisco I was invited to a big Thanksgiving dinner at a friend’s house. I accepted with gratitude and a request to know what I could bring.

02 Apr 2017

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Is This Who We Are?

Immigration bans, religious intolerance, late-night firings, disdain for distinguished public servants, disregard for the right to speak one’s mind – all in the early days of the new administration.

01 Mar 2017

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Digital Hub? You Bet

Mayor Kasim Reed tells a sweet, only-in-Atlanta story about sitting with Andrew Young and Billy Payne at a ceremony last year commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Olympic Games and recalling the improbable uphill journey the two leaders embarked on to convince the world, the Olympic Committee and even some local skeptics that Atlanta was up to the hosting task.

01 Feb 2017

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In Celebration of Writers

There’s something very comforting about a library – whether it’s the imposing Hargrett Library on the UGA campus in Athens, the homey red brick building in Decatur that I visited regularly when I was growing up, or even the overstuffed bookshelves in my family room. Being around books and spending time in places where they are collected and cared for always makes me feel safe and happy.

02 Jan 2017

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Let’s Keep It Simple

Shortly after I arrived, the young woman who had spent a couple of hours in the ER the previous night was awake, thirsty and ready to watch her favorite videos on my phone. The high fever had subsided, and the new meds for her ear infection were kicking in.

01 Dec 2016

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A $20-million Toast

I’m betting that many glasses of chardonnay were raised in heartfelt salute when word came that Fox News was paying a cool $20 million or thereabouts to Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox host who sued Roger Ailes, the now-deposed CEO, for sexual harassment. One of those glasses belonged to me.

01 Nov 2016

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Judging The Judges

It’s not the plot of an old Hollywood B-movie, but it could be – perhaps with the titleJudges Behaving Badly.

03 Oct 2016

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On And Off The Red Carpet

At some point during David Letterman’s acceptance speech at UGA’s Peabody Awards ceremony in New York last spring, it occurred to me that he was a bit nervous.

01 Sep 2016

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Lowering the Bar

I was covering a fairly raucous city council meeting in a small California community a few years ago at which two of the members were at odds. At a critical moment in the debate, one called the other a “horse’s patoot.”

01 Jul 2016

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Looking Good

A lot of Georgians were pleased and proud when Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed HB 757, the “religious liberty” legislation that was little more than an excuse to discriminate against members of the LGBT community.

31 May 2016

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Back to the Voting Booth

During the 2008 presidential campaign, I heard a report from an NPR correspondent who ventured into a Midwestern bar to ask workers from a nearby healthcare facility how they saw the upcoming election. Nobody seemed especially enthusiastic. One woman said she wasn’t sure she would vote, but if she did it probably would not be for “that guy with the funny name.”

30 Apr 2016

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Solutions From Both Sides

There’s enough talk of “dysfunctional” legislative bodies at all levels of government to make you snap to attention when something actually seems to be functioning as it should.

31 Mar 2016

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When Teachers Drop Out

Georgia’s 2016 Teacher of the Year, Ernie Lee, is an engaging, upbeat guy – just the kind of educator whose classroom you’d like your children to spend time in every day. He’s a social studies teacher at Windsor Forest High in the Savannah-Chatham district, and his top teacher designation gives him a ready platform from which to speak on behalf of all public school teachers.

01 Mar 2016

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The Grownups’ Table

I’m not quite sure when I realized I was officially an adult – a grownup, a responsible person expected to behave appropriately, no matter how tedious that might be, and fairly comfortable with that charge.

01 Feb 2016

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Coming Home

My first impressions of Athens on the day I arrived as a freshman at the university were that it was hot, it was hilly, it was scary and that there was nowhere else I would rather be. Next came the realization that I did not have the right shoes.

31 Dec 2015

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Riding With History

On a recent Sunday afternoon, while bumping along quiet residential streets and bustling city blocks, Wayne Smith artfully avoids getting-out-of-church crowds at the new Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue and Falcons’ game day traffic near the Georgia Dome.

30 Nov 2015

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A Bubble Wrap Conspiracy

I can’t help wondering if certain candidates and political office-holders are the recipients of top-secret but plentiful supplies of bubble wrap – invisible to the rest of us – that they use to insulate and isolate themselves from the world beyond their advisers and supporters and consultants. You know, the world made up of ordinary people with jobs and kids and mortgages and car pools and soccer practices and doctors’ appointments. To say nothing of ears and eyes and brains and even BS detectors.

01 Oct 2015

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Acts Of Kindness

On a hot Sunday afternoon this summer, a family – a father with three children, including a toddler having a meltdown – was parked in a grocery store lot, with the hood of their ancient station wagon propped up. A young woman with a baby and I, at the same time, approached the family. She asked if they needed help. Maybe some water? The dad indicated yes, then said the car was running hot and they needed gas for the hour-long drive ahead of them.

31 Aug 2015

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Ring in the New Year

No silly hats or confetti required: The new year starts for me the month the school year begins – regardless of what the calendar specifies.

01 Aug 2015

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The Ear Of The Beholder

Fortunately, the “Honey, would you get me some coffee?” era is pretty much over by now, a thing of the past in the nation’s workplaces, with the exception of a few aging and clueless practitioners who still insist that addressing women they are neither related to nor married to as “Honey” is a compliment. (It isn’t.) And that being served coffee is a gender-specific entitlement. (It isn’t.)

01 Jul 2015

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Wanted: Real Villains

In the world of Saturday morning cartoons we inhabited in our childhood, the bad guys were easy to spot: black hats, twirling moustaches, evil laughter and ambitious plots to bring harm to good people and/or destroy the world. (The bad women mainly scowled a lot.)

01 Jun 2015

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Keeping The Faith

Fortunately, most people living in the South these days have no memory of the “white only” signs on water fountains and restrooms that once were commonplace. And the idea of complicated and humiliating registration procedures (counting jellybeans in a jar or naming all the counties in your state, for instance) for African Americans seeking to exercise their Constitutional right to vote seem as distant as horse-and-buggy transportation, if considerably less benign.

30 Apr 2015

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Georgia Places On My Mind

I wish I could tell you I dismiss all those silly “What breakfast cereal are you?” or “What Caribbean island should you move to?” quizzes that I see on Facebook when I ought to be working. Some of them, yes. All of them, no.

31 Mar 2015

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The Kids Are Just Fine

If you are trying to make a millennial’s eyes glaze over, you can’t do much better than, “When I was your age …”

01 Mar 2015

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Fear And Loathing

Last summer, when the first two Ebola patients arrived in Atlanta from West Africa, I was proud that my hometown was offering them care and surprised when there were rumbles about whether public safety was in jeopardy.

31 Dec 2014

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The Ethics Beat Goes On

I cringe when I hear people characterize elected officials with a glib, “They’re all a bunch of crooks,” because a) it’s not true; b) it’s unfair to those who behave; and c) it lowers voters’ expectations.

01 Dec 2014

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When Violence Comes Close

It took me a while to realize that the two black eyes on a woman I worked with many years ago weren’t really the result of the sudden stop in her car that caused her to hit her head against the steering wheel.

30 Oct 2014

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Falling Back, Gladly

Hello, October. A hearty welcome to Real Fall – much better than the Faux Fall that starts officially on the first University of Georgia football Saturday but can still feel tired and sticky.

01 Oct 2014

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Getting It Right

Sitting at the lunch counter replica, you are invited to place your hands palms-down on the surface and close your eyes. You hear voices – some whispery, some loud, all ominous, questioning your right to be where you are. You feel your seat being jolted.

02 Sep 2014

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Summer Games And Fans

If a warm summer morning and a sweet-smelling grassy field of young athletes wearing brand new jerseys and caps, holding onto their gloves and checking out their teammates doesn’t get your blood flowing, then open another bag of Tostitos, head to the couch and find a Law And Order rerun to watch.

31 Jul 2014

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Battle Lines, Punchlines

Fellow Georgians, it’s a done deal. As of the first day of this month, we have the most permissive and most ridiculous gun law in the nation. Gun owners – responsible and otherwise – can carry practically anywhere they like.

30 Jun 2014

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Teachers Rule

It’s easy to understand the appeal of being a teacher – opening minds and hearts to the world of literature or science or music or history, helping students learn and discover what is special and valuable in themselves.

30 May 2014

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The Bullies' Pulpit

Some things don’t change much from one year to the next. You can count on pollen every Georgia spring to make you miserable, and you can count on some of the old boys down at the Capitol to make you ashamed.

30 Apr 2014

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Shaggy Hair, Big Changes

It wasn’t the most significant event of 1964 – there’s a lot of competition for that title – but the arrival of The Beatles in the U.S. and their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show rank pretty high on my personal highlight list because the impact was solid, pervasive and immediate.

31 Mar 2014

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And The Boot Goes On

Nothing says “Hope you had a nice evening, sucker, because everything’s about to change” quite as eloquently as a bright orange “Immo-bilization Notice” under your windshield wiper and a metal boot on your wheel.

28 Feb 2014

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Business Clout, Civic Pride

I suppose if I had grown up someplace where being a real player in the business community did not require active civic engagement, it might be surprising to see how Atlanta works.

31 Jan 2014

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The Children's Hour

I can’t help myself – I still extend my right arm across the passenger seat of the car when I have to brake suddenly. In my mind’s eye, there is a young girl sitting there, needing that gesture of protection. The reality, of course, is that she is a grown woman now, off somewhere driving her own car, making sure her own child is safe. But old habits die hard.

30 Dec 2013

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Agreeing to Disagree

One of my oldest and dearest friends and I have disagreed on practically all things political, sociological and pop cultural for so long that on those rare occasions when I sense some accord, I wonder if I have misunderstood the issue.

02 Dec 2013

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Are We There Yet?

It seems to me there was a period of hopeful naiveté back in the ’70s when a lot of good, optimistic people thought we were getting close to the point of “solving” the race and racism problem once and for all. We were just one more heartfelt discussion, one more sensitivity session or one more round of good-intentions-turned-into-action away from a solution.

30 Sep 2013

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Bless Your Heart

I always thought my mom’s early life story sounded like the plot of a 1940s-era ro-mantic comedy – pretty, spirited young girl from Georgia moves to the Big Apple in search of adventure and romance.

03 Sep 2013

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The Glow of the City Lights

“Hey, kids, let’s put on a show. No, wait, I have a better idea. Let’s start a new city.”

28 Jun 2013