Business Casual

The low point in my personal history of on-the-job organization came at a previous magazine gig, back in the dark ages before digital photography.

Last fall, when a high school student from Fulton County was expelled for a piece of creative writing a teacher read in a journal that had been confiscated from the young woman, there were legitimate questions asked about First Amendment rights, privacy and school safety.

We counted five this morning: five bright, shiny yellow bulldozers clearing away the remnants of a nice little patch of woods across the pond our offices overlook in Gwinnett County.

A little shiver ran down my spine when I read a Peach State Poll conducted by the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government that indicates "Georgians generally support mixing religion and government."

There are a lot of people in the world -- editors and writers among them -- who spend a big chunk of their time pursuing information.

She pulled into an empty parking garage in Midtown a little after 7 one Friday morning, shoved her purse under some file folders on the floor of the passenger side, got out of the car, locked it and, with key ring in hand, went up to the second floor of the adjacent building.

I've never quite found a way to explain the appeal of college football to people who have to have such things explained to them in the first place.

Remember those annoying yellow and black "Baby On Board" signs that seemed to adorn half the cars on the road a few years ago?

On an evening flight out of Atlanta a few years ago, takeoff was delayed when a passenger became ill.

When the eager young public relations person left a voicemail asking if there might be an opportunity for "editorial exposure," she was not seeking an opportunity to flash the magazine's offices.