Atlanta’s infrastructure in the global spotlight

It’s just good manners to clean up when company’s coming. The 23rd FIFA World Cup is an interesting backdrop for the United States’ 250th birthday. Soccer fans from around the world have descended upon America’s gas stations, chain restaurants and even such backwoods haunts as Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Showing we care

Hearing the words mental health prompts some people to stop listening. Those individuals have internally rationalized that mental health does not apply to them.That mindset cannot be further from the truth.

Father’s Day from a mother’s perspective

Life brings challenges every single day, but if you look close enough you can always find blessings along the way. As Father’s Day is approaching on Sunday, June 21, I find myself thinking about the many blessings in my life.

Will our legacy be to leave this a better world than we found it?

Have you ever thought about your legacy? Legacy being defined as “the lasting impact one leaves on the world, both the tangible assets they pass down and the intangible influence they have on others.”For some reason, I have been pondering that subject lately.

‘Honey,’ she asked, ‘why don’t we go fishing?’ Say what?

As the country song goes, it was too hot to fish, but I was thinking of fishing as I sat in the waiting room of an oral surgeon’s office, watching expensive, tropical creatures swim back and forth in a tank facing nervous customers.

The Hidden Price of Social Security

Imagine handing your landlord $300,000, living in his house for two years without ever making a rent payment, and then getting the full $300,000 back when you move out. Did you just live there for free?Millions of renters in South Korea would tell you no.

Here’s a guarantee for Rick Bragg’s next book

Words.Some folks are good saying them. Others are good when writing them.My friend Rick Bragg is not just good in both categories. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist is spectacular.

‘Lady, I’m George!’

A man was in a supermarket pushing a cart which contained, along with a few groceries, a screaming child. As he walked the aisles, the young dad kept repeating, “Keep calm, George. Don’t get excited, George, Don’t yell, George.

Trying to deal with Artie Fishel Intelligence

RING! RING! RING!“Hello. Dick Yarbrough speaking. How may I direct your call?”“Dick, it’s me. Artie.”“I’m sorry. Artie who?”“Artie Fishel, you hare-brained humanoid. Artie Fishel, of Artie Fishel Intelligence. You surely remember me.

Jim Minter was a Georgia journalism giant

If you are old enough, you know exactly where you were when JFK was shot or when Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. Who can forget that Sept. 11, 2001, morning, when those evil hijackers dropped America to its knees?  And then there are the milestone moments in our personal histories.