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Join some of the area’s hottest chefs and wine aficionados for Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation® Greenville, a benefit for Loaves & Fishes and Project Host/Soup Kitchen. tasteofthenation.org/Greenville Pe a c e C e n t e r Check out this month’s lineup at the Peace Center for performances by Riverdance, Grammy-winner Sharon Isbin, Calder Quartet, The SC Governor’s School for Arts, and even Menopause the Musical. peacecenter.org Sundays Get a slice of South American life—and great early bird specials—Sunday 5-6pm at Rio Grille, a Brazilian Steakhouse. riogrille.com
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The Potential Youth Foundation/Sid Wilson Foundation presents Coaches 4 Character “Young Ladies Night” at 7pm featuring USC Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Three Time Olympic Gold Medalist Dawn Staley. potentialyouthfoundation.com
We d n e s d a y s Watch your favorite classic movies under the stars every Wednesday in May during the Rogers Stereo Moonlight Movie Series at the Bowater Amphitheater. greenvillesc.gov Come enjoy the sights, sounds, and tastes of Lunchtime Live! when the free concert series returns for a second season at Greer City Park. cityofgreer.org
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Artisphere, the International Arts Festival of Greenville, presents a diverse menu of experiences that center around the arts, both visual and performing, at both indoor and outdoor venues. artisphere.us
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friend Isabelle’s younger sister was born in the back of a taxicab. Her mother, Nan, never managed to get it together to leave in time for the hospital, one of a string of events for which Isabelle has never forgiven her mother. It’s true that Nan is scatterbrained in many regards; as the wife of one university professor, then another, she was more inclined to spend the afternoons of Isabelle’s childhood arguing about abortion rights with her friends or discussing early French literature than filling the gas tank or rushing home before the children returned from elementary school. Isabelle maintains a lengthy mental list of her mother’s transgressions. As the years elapsed, I heard all of them several times over. We met when we were just 21, working at a tiny ceramics shop we had enjoyed as customers but found intolerable once employed. Over hurried lunches and breaks at the juice bar around the corner, an alliance was forged, each of us taking comfort in recounting the most recent injustices suffered at the hands of our cruel employer. Lunches became Saturday night dinners with Isabelle and her boyfriend, followed by summer day trips to Monterey or Stinson Beach, and a couple of years later, I’d earned front row seats for myself and my date at their wedding in Napa. Conversations with Isabelle almost always wound back to her complaints about her mother, her mother’s boyfriends, and the eccentric Spanish professor who was now her stepfather. Still bitter, my friend told me of special birthdays that passed unnoticed when they were small, or how Nan had flirted with Isabelle’s high school teacher, ostensibly to help her get a better grade. Her mother forgot piano recitals, allowances, field trips and lunches. Years later, she even upstaged Isabelle at her wedding reception by drinking too much and tickling the groom’s father while he was dancing with his new daughter-in-law for the first time. I learned of Nan’s tendency to buy any useless, expensive or tasteless item from a door-to-door salesman the moment he’d ensnared her in personal conversation, as compulsive as the way Isabelle worked herself into a tizzy categorizing her mother’s faults. I heard about Nan’s penchant for purchasing her friends’ ghastly paintings when invited to exhibit openings, which might have struck me as charming if I weren’t privy to Isabelle’s fury at all the squandered money.
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Representing over fifty local and regional Artists I was prepared to be appalled the first time I went with Isabelle to her parents’ home one long-ago Easter morning. When Nan came shyly to the ivy-covered gate to let us in, I was struck immediately by the contrast between the two women: the daughter, a striking, compact brunette in sneakers, vest and tidy jeans, the mother, a tall, tattered-looking blonde, all elbows and knees and messy chignon. She had pale cheeks and worried blue eyes above a flimsy embroidered blouse too short for her arms. She didn’t look like anyone’s mother, not even her own. Gracious but distracted, Nan accidentally handed me a china cup of coffee she’d been drinking from instead of a fresh one and led me on a quick tour of the backyard before resuming the project she’d begun just before we arrived. Nan was hiding candy and presents for all of us—Isabelle, her sister, the boyfriends, the professor—in the branches of a magnolia tree. Now she climbed up and down a rickety ladder, overflowing basket in hand, interrupting herself mid-way up to call out to her husband to please turn on the oven and then held us captive with one marvelous story after another. I loved her, I couldn’t help it. This was Isabelle’s wicked mother? She seemed more like Pippi Longstocking in the middle of a grand adventure. She spent so long tying things into the tree or exclaiming over blossoms that Isabelle and I, desperate for brunch, finally climbed up to finish the job. We ended up hiding every chocolate egg we were supposed to search for later. I could sense Isabelle fuming behind her sunglasses. Brunch was served on the patio outside. I eyed Nan from across the table, fascinated. Funny and poetic, dreamily unsure of herself, she seemed not quite of this earth. As she filled their plates to overflowing, I saw how she loved Isabelle and her youngest daughter, Martha, how she couldn’t take her eyes off them, incredulous at the accomplished young women they’d become. The food appeared in erratic order, not quite a coherent meal. But it was delicious, despite the fact that she only remembered the orange-scented French toast she’d made after we were done, and had to wrap it in foil and plead with us to take it home. Her shyness lessened, Nan enfolded me in a bear hug and invited me to visit again with Isabelle, or just by myself if I felt like it. I waited months before seeing her on my own, not comfortable with any show of disloyalty to my friend Isabelle or to her anger toward her mother. But I ran into Nan on occasion in the market or at Isabelle’s parties, and I accepted her invitations at last. Traitor that I was, I began to stop by frequently, drawn by Nan’s depth and kindness, the loneliness behind her smile. She never spoke ill of Isabelle, nor did she compromise her girls’ privacy during our long conversations. I wondered whether she even mentioned our visits to her daughter. The two barely seemed related. When I thought of Isabelle and her mom, it was like comparing a day laborer with a wood nymph. Isabelle, practical and punctual, maintained a schedule so rigidly enforced it might shame a military general. Coffee dates with her in recent years were scheduled within ridiculous parameters, commencing at 3:11, ending abruptly at 4:08, so she could fit me in between yoga class and her son’s soccer game. I felt exhausted and ignored after an entire afternoon with my old friend, the crown princess of multitasking, watching her braise Peking duck while organizing a surprise party by phone, watering the herb pots and tossing a load of delicates in and out of the dryer. My guilty secret was that I much preferred wandering around town with Nan over the course of a day in a kind of pleasant fog, making our way from shop to shop in search of a cheese she remembered tasting once in Marseilles. Isabelle called me over the holidays, outraged that her mother forgot to pick up her grandchildren as promised—the afternoon simply slipped by Nan while she was searching for an antique gold watch fob for her daughter on the other side of the city. I couldn’t even find it in my heart to commiserate. Last year the frayed rope of my connection with Isabelle finally gave way. We were both annoyed by the other. I was weary of the diatribes against Nan and so many others, weary of hearing about all the thorns in Isabelle’s imperfect life. She seemed to thrive on each disappointment, recounting with relish the frailties of those around her, her teachers, neighbors, her own husband. Disgusted by my apparent lack of sympathy, she stopped calling. 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“We’re trying new medication for Jake,” my friend Lauren tells me. Her son, like mine, has autism and seizures. “We saw bad side effects on that one,” I warn. “I know. The doctor told me Jake might even have hallucinations. So I said, ‘Really? How would we be able to tell?’” We both crack up. We convulse with hysterical laughter. This is what passes for funny in the Land of Autism. Gallows humor. Our personal shorthand. It’s how we cope. When Lauren’s son Jake and my son Mickey are hospitalized at the same time for video EEG monitoring, Lauren and I arrange for the boys to share a room at N.Y.U. Medical Center. Mickey slugs any technician who tries to come near him. But by day’s end, both boys wear identical sets of 32 electrodes, glued—with great difficulty—to their scalps. Lauren and I get to share their room for five days too. We collect sheets from the nearby linen closet, make beds out of reclining chairs. We sleep in our clothes. Take turns taking showers down the hall in a cold, tight stall with a warm trickle. After several days of this, I turn to her and announce:“The spa services here suck.” “There are two kinds of days,” our friend Alison says. “Bad days and good days that haven’t gone bad yet.” And there are often exhausting days, when it feels like too much effort to talk to anyone, because I just don’t want to have to explain what it’s like living with autism. That’s when I call Lauren. “Rupert Isaacson took his autistic son, Rowan, on a trip to Mongolia to ride horses and seek the help of shamans two years ago. His new book, The Horse Boy, tells the story of their journey.” “Gee. If only we’d known,” she says. “Yeah,” I say. “Maybe witch doctors are the way to go. Do you think Blue Cross would cover that?” We saw shamans too, in the beginning. Only they called themselves Alternative Therapists, or Holistic Healers. That’s what desperate parents do after the diagnosis. You follow all the prescribed therapies, of course, but pursue every other treatment you can find. You try them all. Crazy diets. Pancreatic enzymes. Epsom salt baths. You deplete your savings on expensive and unproven treatments. Woo-woo stuff. There’s a whole cottage industry of people who sell hope. Snake-oil salesmen, each one dangling the carrot of Cure de Jour. Over the years you learn to temper hope with reason. And along the way, if you are lucky, you find fellow travelers. Wise-cracking mothers who become your lifelines. Together you strip mine the lonely landscape for gold nuggets of humor. The joking insulates you against the despair. There’s a New Yorker cartoon I love: two women are sitting in a bar. One says to the other, “Talk to me. You have wounds. I have salt.” “I just read a book that claims you can heal autism by swimming with the dolphins,” reports Lauren. “I’m thinking of pitching a book of my own: How I Cured My Child of Autism by Swimming With Galapagos Turtles.” “Or maybe you should call it The Turtle Cure Diet: How to Coax Your Autistic Kid Out of His Shell?” We groan. The truth, of course, is that we all feel that no matter how much we have done, there will never be enough we can do for our children. The therapists say euphemistically that our children have “challenging behaviors.” They’re quirky. Cracking jokes about it may be our version of whistling past the graveyard, but it also feels rich and restorative. Edgy humor keeps us afloat. It’s a form of hard-earned bravery. We are riding in Miriam’s van. Her son James likes to issue driving directions. “We have arrived at our destination,” he says in a robotic voice. “You think he can make a career being the voice of G.P.S.?” Miriam asks. ‘When am I going to drive?” Jake asks Lauren. She doesn’t miss a beat. “When you’re 50,” she says. Lauren emails a story on the AP wire. “Is Facebook addictive?” the article asks. “A British scientist says all that time online could be changing how the brain functions—shortening attention span, even contributing to autism.” “Is that so?” I reply. “But last week some researchers in Seattle insisted it was all the television kids watch on rainy days.” “It wasn’t Tv,” Miriam points out. “They blamed autism on the rain.” “Did you see that new study? The headline said, ‘Autism Moms Have Stress Similar to Combat Soldiers.’” “Someone spent money to study that? They could’ve just asked us.” Miriam laughs. “Ladies, we need uniforms. With merit badges. Then we could just say, whoa, learned that already. See here? I got this one in Guadalcanal.” Yes. That’s us. We are veterans of the Autism War.
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Addie’s Way: Lessons in Cooking and Life as Learned From My Lebanese Mother
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Michael J. Shaheen
As a loving tribute to his late mother Addie, Michael completed the Lebanese cookbook she started. Filled with lovely family recipes, dear memories and photos, the book honors a wise, tenacious and generous woman.
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Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination Phil Cousineau
As I was reading this, I kept thinking it wasn’t anything I didn’t already know. But I’ve carried it everywhere, and paging back, I can see I underlined a lot, so I guess I hadn’t learned it all that well after all. Nikki Hardin, Publisher
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I didn’t need another Starbucks card, but I’m a sucker for fun design, and this one made me happy.
A long-lost friend who found my blog sent me a Frida candle...I’m going to light it next time I need to summon a muse.
mixology My grandmother was an amateur self-taught painter. She took it up later in life and continued well into her 80s and even managed to make extra money in her Social Security years selling her paintings locally. I grew up loving the heavy porcelain mixing tray, the wooden palettes with multi-colored streaks making their own abstract painting, and best of all, the smell of oil paints and thinner. I’m only now realizing what a creative role model this conventional housewife was for me. My mother was a superb teacher and my aunt one of the sharpest businesswomen in town, but my grandmother was an artist. And whether she was cooking or cleaning or working on a painting, she was always perfectly turned out in housedress or skirt and blouse with stockings rolled up above her knees and respectable low-heeled pumps. I don’t think she ever got upset because she wasn’t another Grandma Moses; she was just in her true element when she picked up the brush. When I tear up a painting or drawing because it’s amateurish or I get frustrated not knowing the techniques real artists use, I need to conjure up my grandmother’s spirit—The Muse of Just Pick Up the Brush.
I recently spent a happy Sunday afternoon playing with watercolors, a calligraphy brush and sumi-e ink.
One of my blog entries was about picking one thing and doing it instead of trying to multitask. A reader turned me on to these little sticky notes from PrettyBitter.com.
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