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Ever since I read the book “Palindrome” by Stuart Woods in high school I’ve wanted to visit Cumberland Island. While the book is fiction, the setting of Greyfield Inn and Cumberland Island is not. The book describes a private island, an inn run by a storied family, and cottages throughout the island owned by the …
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As I turn 47 in a few weeks ago, I set out to find the fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon was in search of almost 500 years ago. I found myself in St. Augustine, Florida, the United States’ oldest settled (by White people) city, but never found the fountain of youth. Good thing …
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I visited Hearst Castle as the summer of 2007 started. I had just finished MBA school, and would start a new job a week later, and took my first solo trip ever, up and down the California coast. Hearst Castle was on my must-see list after watching countless episodes of America's Castles on A&E. Coincidentally, …
As Women's History Month wraps up, it seemed an appropriate time to think about the trip to Hearst Castle that I took earlier this month and the woman behind the castle: Julia Morgan. Morgan was the first registered female architect in California, and that’s no small feat; Even today, women only make up 27% of …
Of the 83 books I read in 2024, I would definitely rank The Women and The Frozen River as the best of the best. I read The Women and The Frozen River back to back, and they complemented each other very well. Both had female protagonists in healthcare who were denigrated and stigmatized by women …
October 10, 2024 Everyone has big ideas, but these days, audiences prefer to consume their content in smaller bits, even for the big ideas, and marketers must find inventive ways to reach new audiences. Content atomization allows marketers to take larger pieces of content and break them up into smaller, more digestible forms, expand ways …
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May is Historic Preservation Month, and as we near the end of spring in our wonderful state, I wanted to look back on all of the historic sites I've visited over this spring. March is also Phoenix Flies, an entire month of free tours of historic buildings and properties courtesy of the Atlanta Preservation Center. …
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My maternal grandmother, Swarajyam Amaraneni, who was like a second mother to me, passed away on December 27, 2022. As we did when my grandfather, her husband of 40 years passed away in 1990, we took her ashes back to India, to the village where they lived when they were raising their children, and where …
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Ever since I heard that there was a movie version of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, my 10 year old self was giddy with excitement, like the first time I wore a bra. Unlike wearing a bra though, the excitement of reading a Judy Blume classic never wears off, the underwire never cuts …
I had scheduled a trip to Morocco over the holidays a few months ago, and planned to go see my grandmother when I returned after the new year, but destiny had other plans for us. When my brother called me Tuesday to tell me she had passed, I felt oddly calm, relieved that she was …
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Sravanthi Meka 