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An Interview with Mary O’Connell
In honor of Autism Awareness Month, this week’s column shines a light on a woman who has made a marked impact on autism resources here in Snellville. As the mother of five and the foster parent of...
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‘Girls on the Run’ Prepare for 5K Race
The media is full of messages to girls and women about their image, their role and their value. Most recently, Ashley Judd received the brunt of the entertainment industry’s vitriol as they discussed...
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Meet Alisa Boykin
Published in Our Town Gwinnett Magazine I’m excited to be the new cover story writer for Our Town Gwinnett Magazine! I’m really looking forward to meeting some interesting and inspirational people...
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Meet Kelly Farris
Meet Kelly Farris Women often pour their hearts and souls into the lives of the people around them. This is, of course, an honorable and powerful character trait, and part of what makes us love the...
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No Certainty in Life
A few years ago… well, almost a decade now, I was a Realtor. I was a little past twenty, freshly divorced and still reeling from the death of dreams, and did fairly well the year before the bottom...
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Ten Things That Remind Me of You, Dad
1. Coffee – Because you started my coffee addiction at 16, when I moved too slow and forgot how to speak so early in the morning. I think you would put in 16 scoops of sugar and half a cup of milk....
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The Way I Live Now
From urban sprawl to mountain solitude. From grinding, soul-rupturing traffic to stopping for bears. The dross from too many souls to space for my own to settle and spread. To quote an old-soul’d...
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From Mount Sinjar to the Great Smokies
I started volunteering at a refugee resettlement agency in town a few weeks ago. The stories are bouncing around in my brain, and I’d like to share them with you. Mostly, I never really know what I...
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A Dream Deferred
I drove through town in a slight drizzle. Despite using the GPS, I got lost three times before I pulled up to an old 1950s home tucked away between two neighborhoods packed to the brim with McMansions....
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A Piece of a Story
She had to leave the house. It was stuffy and filled with too many people she didn’t know or like. Her insides felt like a coiled wire, and she knew she would snap in a very ugly way if she stayed in...
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