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Outside the Trump Rally
I thought there would be more guns and gold sneakers.
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Please Don’t Call It An Empty Nest. We Still Live Here.
In the days before dropping our youngest child off at college, I was not keeping it together at all.
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Love the Ones You're With
It’s so weird right now, yeah?
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The Unknown Potential of Life, Death, Sex and Flowers
A hospital cafeteria is not the most glamorous place to have an existential crisis.
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Welcome to Snowvannah
In some places, two-and-half inches of snow does not warrant school closures, toilet paper hoarding, and general interruption of daily tasks. Savannah…
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Lessons in Chemistry (and Criticism)
I recently had a transformative exchange with a reader who told me they were unsubscribing from this column because I often write about issues that can…
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Backasswards on the Back River
Dead low tide ought to be the best time to paddle around Tybee’s Back River, but the wind was blowing so strong my nostrils were flapping.
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The Long Story
Good gracious, the Savannah Sideways Substack turned four years old last month.
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This Tangled Fairytale
Once upon a time, two young weirdos got lost on a mountain.
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Keep the High in Hiatus
In the words of our dear departed pirate sage eternal frat boy Jimmy Buffet, yes, it’s been quite a summer.
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Turning the Tide at the End of the World
My dear groom taught me early on in our courtship that the southern tip of Tybee Island is an excellent place to set one’s mind adrift when the current…
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Who Ain’t Tybee?
It’s the third week of July, which means I’m approaching peak beach rat.
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