Sugar Britches

I know you’ve all been chewing your nails with anticipation, eagerly awaiting a new blog entry. To placate the voracious appetites of all my loyal readers, I come bearing photographs:

Here I am at Niagara Falls.
And now you can see the reason for my absence: For the last week I have been on a road [...]

True Blood is one of my guilty pleasures. I watched the entire first season in the span of two days. It’s rare for me to make plans specifically to watch a TV show, but that’s exactly what I did tonight with my roommates for the second season premier. Now, let’s not fool ourselves: this is [...]

I am presently mourning the loss of my blog’s distant cousin-thrice-removed, the Sugar Britches boutique in East Atlanta Village.

The building has been painted a fantastically awful shade of Pepto Bismol pink, and in its place is now “House of Bling”. Woe is me.

Well, this is unfortunate: Homeowner Says Crews Demolished Wrong House
CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. — This is a story that may leave you shaking your head.
A Sandy Springs man got a phone call Monday that his family home in Carroll County was gone. Torn down. Demolished.
“We had heirlooms in there…my mom’s dining room set…her hutch with her [...]

Everybody has at least one “weird” relative. It ranges from the one who behaves just slightly off-kilter, to the one who seems to be from another planet, to the one who, every time you look at them, you think: “I’m kin to this person HOW?” If you’re only related by marriage, you’re probably safe. On [...]

…Is it possible to give directions like: “Get on Ponce, turn right on Ponce, then turn right on Ponce.”

If you’re driving through midtown, Ponce de Leon Avenue NE does not in fact run northeast, but rather east and west. However, if you’re heading east, Ponce becomes West Ponce, which crosses through Decatur, then becomes East [...]

For those traveling to the south, I have started compiling a list of helpful words and phrases. Keep in mind that some meanings do vary between states, so I’m going by the dialect of my hometown.
Adlanna, Kayrow, Dalonaguh, Decab and Allbenny – Locations in Georgia.
spelled as Atlanta, Cairo, Dahlonega, Dekalb and Albany.
A’spearmint – A method [...]