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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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If you are a big reader like I am, you may read books centered around the holiday theme when the calendar flips to December (or maybe earlier!). Like me, you may have some favorites, and then some new discoveries. Classic favorites include Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Truman Capote's "A …
I create content for a living, both writing and producing video content, so it has been almost two decades since I've done any creative writing. My father has written poetry his entire life, so I was encouraged by him to keep up my creative writing as a hobby, but life happens, and the pen was put aside as the bills stacked up.
Not a coincidence that my last post was the Best of 2020 Books, because 2021 was a blur. Isn't everything during a pandemic a time-warp? Seriously - 2021 was jam-packed. While I didn't do much writing last year, I did a TON of reading,
Even before quarantine started in March, I knew I was going to read a lot more in 2020, given that I started the year without a full-time job. What has changed since January is how I choose my books. Before this year, my book choices were primarily based off Reese Witherspoon's book club, or the …
I spent most of my free time over the holidays catching up on my Criterion Collection watch list. I guess it was to combat my brain turning to mush from too many Hallmark holiday movies? I've always loved older movies, so it was a no-brainer for me to subscribe to the Criterion Collection earlier this …
School started this week in Georgia, and like quite a few students this year, this 42-year old is learning outside of the classroom from her home. Okay, so my reading assignments aren't quite Catcher in the Rye, the Great Gatsby and Madame Bovary like in Mrs. Tomblin' 10th grade American Literature or Mrs. Epperson's AP …
Sravanthi Meka 