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  • 5 Reasons to Love the South

    Love the SouthEditor’s Note, this post originally appeared on “Not for Nothing Y’all” by the lovely Brittney Vasina.

    If you had asked me to point out Atlanta on a map before I moved here from New York, I’m not sure I could do it. I had never really heard of the city. I guess I probably just knew it was in the South – and at that point, to me I believe the South was just simply a place where people farmed…to me it was a place that probably did not have electricity or internet. I’d never been, and was quite content with that fact. You can imagine the horror I felt when my parents told my sister and I that we were moving to Georgia…”Why would we do that?”

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  • New Beach Read – “The Idea of Him”

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    Are you stocking up on books for the summer? We’ve got your new beach read – The Idea of Him by Holly Peterson. She’s the author of The N.Y. Times best-seller The Manny, kickass journalist, mom extraordinaire, and even an avid surfer.

    I recently caught up with Miss Holly at the fabulous W Atlanta-Midotwn where we sipped “Idea-tinis” and talked about her writing, love life, and The Idea of Him. Her latest novel “explores the dangers of falling for the idea of a person, and why facing reality is more liberating than we ever dreamed it could be.”
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  • The Dixie Download – Southern Women Channel

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    The lovely ladies at The Southern Women Channel have whipped up another video masterpiece with The Dixie Download. After their first video, Sh&t Southern Women Say, went viral with more than 5 million hits on YouTube, the former Southern girls who now reside in L.A. have started a regular YouTube series. My personal favorite lines from their latest installment include “What’s a Southern man’s idea of loading the dishwasher?” all of the “Dixie Dixtionary”, plus this joke “What’s smaller than a teeny weeny ant?”
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  • Flirt of the South

    The Flirt of the South with her beau.
    The Flirt of the South with her beau.

    “Hey, soldier boy!” With those three, flirtatious words, a love story was born.

    My namesake and grandmother, Mama Ruth, had met her Norman on a double date with her best friend one hot Georgia summer day in the mid-1950s – only, he wasn’t her date. A few weeks later, when nothing had developed further from their respective dates, Mama Ruth was sitting in a car with her girlfriends at the drive-through. Over giggles and the radio, she turned and saw a tall man in uniform walking by. “That’s Norman,” she told her friends. “Oh, he is so handsome, Ruth,” they remarked. So she rolled down the window and yelled out those three, unforgettable words with a sweet, melodic voice, one that still fills the room with sugar when she tells the story today. He smiled, walked over to the car, leaned over to her window and said, “Well hey there, Miss Ruth.”

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  • Dear Virginia Tech and Your Friend Blacksburg

    grad1Soon, I will be leaving and heading onward to my next adventure. It’s bittersweet, as I’m sure you understand. But I would be remiss if I did not properly thank you for the experiences we shared over the last four years, the lessons you taught me about school, work and life itself. Believe me, there’s a lot. Don’t let me get too misty-eyed.

    It was here where I discovered what I want to do with my life. Well, I knew what field I wanted to pursue, but I wasn’t positive about exactly what I wanted to do. It didn’t take long for me to change my focus from journalism to public relations, and to add my second major in creative writing. Send your press release and public relations campaign assignments my way; I’ve got you covered.

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  • Atlanta Street Artwork

    Atlanta Street Artwork

    2012-12-30 14.23.43There’s something beautiful about the broken.

    In a growing city like Atlanta, our eyes pop at the sight of new condos, commercial buildings, and restaurants that seem to surface in our neighborhoods without limit. But the crumbling infrastructure and dilapidated real estate that once was has a mystic, ethereal, restful beauty about it that has always tugged at my curiosity and landed me in places seldom visited by the the sensible adventurer. (more…)