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This is Between Business Cards
I’m navigating life—one foot stuck in the mud, the other trying to pull free. Like you, I’ve held a lot of roles: sibling, employee, spouse, healthy person and one facing illness. Some of those titles even made it onto my business cards. But life has a way of editing our identities—whether we’re ready or not. Over time, my roles changed. I was divorced. My parents passed. I experienced painful estrangements and major illness. And through it all—showing up, struggling, transitioning—I found unexpected lifelines: family, friends, books, projects and small, quiet gestures that kept me afloat. This isn’t a self-help blog. It’s more of a help-yourself-while-I-stumble-through blog. It’s about the collective…
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Luckie Street
A back hallway led us to an elevator door tucked behind the restaurant. Richard and I had weaved through the dining tables of Ted’s Montana Grill, inhaling the mouth-watering smell of sizzling bison burgers as we approached that hallway. We were attending a fundraiser for the Decatur Book Festival. Located at 133 Luckie Street in Atlanta, the event was hosted by Elizabeth Dewberry, an award-winning author and friend of Ted Turner, the cable news mogul. He generously opened his penthouse apartment for the soiree. Ted had sold CNN to Time-Warner a decade and a half ago. Like an adult child moving out of their parents’ home, he relocated his memorabilia…
