By Chris Schroder Most people wouldn’t subject themselves to ridicule on their birthday – but then again, Jerry Farber and other professional comedians aren’t like most people. The veteran Atlanta entertainer and nightclub owner will celebrate ...
By Chris Schroder In 1995, Larry Gellerstedt III had a difficult choice to make. For nine years, he had been CEO of Beers Construction, a $1 billion firm his father had led before him. The firm ...
By Chris Schroder Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Sally Bethea began her work with environmental conservancy groups in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until hearing Robert Kennedy Jr. make a stirring speech that she had a Moment that ignited ...
Stories of recovery and reinvention inspire us, because they show us possible routes out of our own valleys. These stories prove that we ordinary people are capable of extraordinary resilience. Each week since August 2011, I've ...
One of the most vocal critics of the Atlanta Regional Commission attended his first board meeting on Jan. 23 as a new board member. Steve Brown, the recently-named chairman of the Fayette County Commission, was an ...
By Chris Schroder Three weeks ago, Herb Nelson sat in the bleachers as he watched his 12-year-old son playing on his all-star basketball team when he had a Moment that changed everything – his son signaled ...
I seem to remember Moments. I can’t tell you the name of the movie I saw last week, but my friends look to me to remind them of scenes from our childhood and high school ...
By Maria Saporta Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will be splitting her loyalties between Atlanta and Austin. The University of Texas in Austin announced that Franklin has joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs as the ...
By Chris Schroder Retired CEO and Chairman of financial firm Montag & Caldwell, Solon Patterson’s Moment led him and his wife to dedicate the rest of their lives to trying to reunite two Christian religions that ...
By Chris Schroder Real Estate Developer and Founder of Ackerman Security Systems, Charles Ackerman, had his Moment on a trip to a remote mountain range when he happened upon a third-world village. While preparing to take a ...
Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santa Claus. He’s called by many names but his mission is always the same – deliver toys to children around the world. We had the chance to catch up with ...
By Chris Schroder Mark McDonald and his childhood friends were bicycling to their favorite fishing pond nestled in a grove of trees outside their historically rich hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, when they made a startling discovery. The ...
By Chris Schroder While President and CEO of Southern Bell, Frank Skinner began to take a leadership role in conducting the United Way Campaign for Metropolitan Atlanta. During the introduction to this new role in 1988, ...
Note from Michelle: This week's column is by guest writer Ben Smith, who happens to be my husband. Many of you know him from his days as an AJC political reporter. By Ben Smith In my ...
By Chris Schroder Tom Murphy had been in the restaurant business for years serving nutritious and high quality meals at Murphy’s, his iconic Virginia-Highland restaurant, but it wasn’t until his mother passed away from ovarian cancer ...
By Chris Schroder Matt Arnett had toured art museums across the globe, but nothing made a larger impact on his art career than the Moment he discovered a handcrafted quilt tucked away in a closet of ...
By Chris Schroder If you watched as Kasim Reed was sworn in as the 59th Mayor of Atlanta in 2010, you saw his parents proudly standing beside him. Their influence on Kasim’s life has been constant ...
Between family members, the truth is a delicate thing. That’s why memoirs are popular. We like reading about people who take the risk to bear witness to their intimate lives, because most of us will ...
By Chris Schroder It was a Sunday morning, October 21, 1973. Alana Shepherd remembers this specific Sunday morning – not because it happened to be her mother’s birthday – but because it was the morning she ...
By Chris Schroder When Charles Driebe’s mom invited him to a mysterious meeting at her house in 1990, the 33-year-old Atlanta attorney had no idea that one Moment would alter his life – and the lives ...
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