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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