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Where It All Went Wrong

Posted on 8/1/2012 8:00:00 AM by Doug Monroe
Like ghosts rising out of a Confederate cemetery, Atlanta’s past lapses in judgment haunt the region today, leaving a smoky trail of suburban decay, declining home values, clogged highways, and a vastly diminished reputation. Read More

The Long Goodbye

Posted on 1/1/2012 3:00:00 PM by Doug Monroe
We thought Daddy was going to die in 2001. He was staggering around the house in his underwear, gasping in pain, his eyes hollow, his face slashed from shaving with an old-fashioned safety razor. He was eighty-two years old. Read More

Mum’s the Word

Posted on 2/1/2011 8:00:00 AM by Doug Monroe
Whenever I take MARTA from the airport, just before the train dips underground in College Park, I crane my neck to see the high, wooden house that my great-grandfather built for his family. Read More

Assisted Loving

Posted on 4/1/2002 8:00:00 AM by Doug Monroe
My father, Augustus Currie Monroe, has always had an extraordinary capacity to endure pain. When I was a child, we were loading the dishwasher together one evening and I heard a low moan. Read More