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Journalists can be honest about everybody else. Can we be honest about ourselves?

The story of what inspired A Drink Between Friends.

I'm guessing a Depeche Mode concert is not among the likely places to find a four-leaf clover. And yet...

Did I telepathically summon a TV star to show up in an Atlanta ice cream shop?!

Away has been my favorite word ever since I learned how to spell it. A word for going somewhere else on an adventure. That intrigued my second grade mind that was dying to escape my uptight private school. So, why did I say no to London? Binging Absolutely Fabulous as a teen sparked my obsession with traveling to Old Londontown. I also fell in love with the eclectic sounds of BBC 6 Music and the Brit's wit and dry sense of humor. And you can only imagine how bewildered I w

I'm in my early 40s, and it's taken until now for me to be okay with nothing being set in stone - or in my case, set in a chocolate frosty from Wendy's. In the mid-90's, there was a Wendy's next-door to my high school. My friends and I routinely went there for the suburban delicacy of dipping our fries into a frosty. I remember during one meeting of our semi-formed teenage minds, we discussed our futures. They were adamant I would be "the next Oprah Winfrey." And that was the

I did a Saturday morning sift through a backlog of podcasts, and I found one about time capsules. My morning coffee got my imagination churning. And from it, I present to you the items I would put in my time capsule (plus the one thing I'd be happy to bury and never think about again.) 1) This Sprite Bottle from 1997 Call it puppy love, but I never felt more special than the night this Sprite was bought for me. I just celebrated my Sweet 16 in Minsk, Belarus during a foreign