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When was the last time you were struck by wonder? If you can’t remember, it might be time to get off the beaten ath e find oursel es sur rised in the unlikeliest of places and by the unlikeliest of people when we take the time to slow down and allow oursel es to mar el at beauty at strength at the impossible becoming possible. And you don t always ha e to go ar though tra el is a wonderful cure for awe-lessness. We can find wonder in the bra ery o our she-roes, those wonder women who inspire us to wonder if...if we could take that lea i we could gi e u the ordinary or the e traordinary i we could find a way to disco er that we e had the power to click our heels three times and make our own wish come true, and that we e had it all along t s our wondering and wandering that lead us to landscapes we e ne er seen actions we ne er thought we d be bra e enough to take ourneys to s aces and laces we e only seen on tele ision or in hotos hese roads end at beauty and joy and with the kind o iew that should be reser ed for “awesome.” Wonder is only limited by how big we want to dream. What if we had no limits? What if money was no object? What if we could make it happen anyway? What if we could choose our most precious wants and channel them into wonder? We stop treading water and start swimming, we really listen to the crashing o the wa es on the shore we unplug, put our phones away, and create our own choose your ad enture game. Wonder is seeing where we end u when we ha e no destination in mind Wonder is packing light, heading to the air ort and buying a ticket to where er the ne t ight will take you onder can be a wild ride, a beautiful journey, and we hope you’ll join us for this one. o er rt
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We spend a lot of our time working a month ahead. Deadlines! Teeth-clenching, white-knuckling, race to the finish so we can get the issue out and into your hands on time. But don’t let us fool you; most months? It’s a gift. Like our “Wonder” issue, in which we got to meet so many amazing wonder women, make lists of things that make us wonder, pause to breathe and consider what really takes our breath away in the very best way e learned that being selfish is okay so is asking for help. We learned that fear is a terrible excuse for inaction. We took on the challenge of answering the unanswerable: Why do we wonder? Curiosity never really did kill the cat, by the way, but what it is, why it e ists is to ins ire us to find the answers to e lore disco er create y di e sign u reach out s read the word about what we really care about. Without it, the world would be a bleaker place. So when your little hits the two-year-old “why” stage (“why is the sky blue?” why do lanes y? why do a les all rom trees? get right down there and “why” right with them.The gift of seeing the world anew through a child’s eyes is priceless. And we all need a reminder, from time to time, to stop fretting and start looking for the wonder in this world. We hope to see you in the shoulder lane of the Isle of Palms bridge on your commute home, ausing while tra fic crawls by to watch with mouth agape the color and light show of that sunset. That’s what we call awesome. Next month: Look for our super-smart special spring section in our April issue on Women at Work!
F E AT U R E S He's So ............................................................................25 Wonder Women.........................................29-32 One Hit Wonders..............................................48 Wonder Pages.............................38,41,43,44 Essential Items to Pack on Your Spiritually Transformative Solo Trip Valerie Nies. ......................................................47
E S S AY S A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Wonder Sigrid Johhanes...........................................................26 Wandering in the Past Pam Molnar ........................................................37 Wondering about Wandering Brianna Kramer.................................................42
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ABRAHAM CHAMPAGNE n humble orm braham re ers to contribute to his non rofit passion, Boys With A Purpose, behind the scenes. He serves as the organization’s board treasurer, and he also works on the organizational side and assists with programming and social media. Abraham has been adding his expertise since June, when Raymond Nelson III, one of the founders, invited him to join their efforts. Abraham already had experience teaching youths. He used to run a program through the former Exchange Club in North Charleston, which promoted responsible decision-making and life skills for young boys, with an emphasis on preventing child abuse. He has also been a teacher focused on early childhood education for nine years his year he s teaching second grade or the first time s a teacher, he said he wants to help shift thought processes. “You can
see their growth right before your eyes,” he said of his students. As a leader with Boys With A Purpose, Abraham helps 20 young men between ages 5 and 12 years grow, with knowledge of how to dress and conduct themselves in the community like gentlemen as art o the athway to finding their o erall ur ose he grou motto is “Look good, feel good, do good." They meet each week at the College of Charleston and engage in enriching experiences like volunteer projects or discussions with various professionals. While the demographic is predominantly African-American boys with lower socieconomic status, Abraham said, “We see this program as something that could benefit boys in any community hite black Hispanic… Boys at a young age need support.”
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Wonder Stories about traveling, wandering, the wonder of our great big world.
“Leaves! I can see the leaves!” This is one of my clearest memories of wonder, when I was about ten years old and exiting an eye doctor’s office for the first time with glasses on. As my mother and I walked home, I was utterly mesmerized by the clarity my new specs afforded me. The leaves on the trees, the texture of the paved roadway, the dimensions of the clouds. All these details were brand new to me. With a little help and a new perspective, amazement and delight had come from the simplest of sights, things that I walked past every day. As we grow up, most of us do not find amazement in things like asphalt and leaves. Like a riverbed in summer, our wonderment dries up to nothing but a trickle, cutting the fun short. Not all of this receding is inexplicable or wrong. Adult life affords many wonders that childhood does not – the peace of holding a newborn baby for the first time, the exhilaration of landing that job, the bliss of losing yourself in love for another person; these are feelings of wonder that sharpen with age. Squaring off against life milestones like these, however, leaves seem to lose a little of their charm. Yet milestones are special precisely because they are few and far between. If we let our childhood wonders evaporate, what will sustain our spirits from day to day? Placing myself back in my ten-year-old shoes, I see two solutions: put on a new pair of glasses, or pick a new way to walk home. There are many ways to alter our view. For some people, it means stimulating the mind in a new way. Reading a great book or having a rich conversation with a friend can spark thoughts you have never had before. Each new idea cuts a new facet in the lens of your mind and before you know it, you are walking around town with a brand new pair of mental glasses on. Things begin to jump out at you that never seemed special before. Perhaps you rediscover the commonplace, everyday things that make up a cherished relationship. For other people, a fresh perspective means laying something down. Grudges and anxieties can cloud our view, blurring the outlines of truths that once were certain. Trauma can smash your glasses altogether, leaving you blind. Groping through life with no clear vision, clinging to the ragged shapes of experiences, is a hard way to live. Thankfully, the mind is as resilient and adaptable as it is powerful. Prescriptions change, and the glasses you wore when you were ten may no longer suit you at thirty. Take them off, thank them for their service, and put them away. Fashion a new pair, a new way of looking at the everyday landscape of your life. You may be astonished at what appears.
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Finding a new road to walk can be even more challenging than altering one’s perspective. After all, most of us face some constraints in life that prohibit us from carving new paths at will. We have jobs to perform, families to care for, and dreams to pursue. Travel fascinates because it offers a temporary reprieve, a new path with the promise of home at the end. Dropping everything and backpacking across Southeast Asia is realistic only for a very few of us. And do not be fooled by the Instagram posts or the travel blogs. No matter where or how you travel, it does cost money and time. It is a privilege that many cannot attain. In many ways, I think social media has cheated us of some of the wonder of travel. Scrolling past dozens of photographs of breathtaking vistas can inspire, but it can also desensitize. If you want to get any wonder out of your travel, remember why you are going in the first place. The new path is for you. Not your followers or your boss or even your family, but for you. No one else has your pair of eyes. So how can we expect numerous different pairs of eyes to see the same way? The new road you are craving might be a remote hiking trail in the Andes, or it might be a new park on the other side of town. Wherever your feet take you next, go with fresh, clear sight and a set of goals to match. With those tools, you will never fail to find wonderment. I have a trip coming up the weekend after next. It is the first trip I have ever planned on my own, without the opinions or advice of others. Asheville, North Carolina is beckoning. Is it the most exotic locale? No. It is a mere (and affordable) four hour drive away. But it is still different, and a new road is what I need right now. I cannot wait to look at the mountains, and rediscover my love for our country’s diverse landscapes. I cannot wait to sip beer and people watch. Most of all, I cannot wait to enjoy the things that I enjoy, without apologizing or explaining to anyone, embracing my unapologetic delight. In the days to come, I will be cutting those new lenses for my mind. Clearing out the old and welcoming in a new perspective. I will lay down the baggage that is getting in the way. I will carefully comb through the practical concerns, but avoid any list-making. I am an obsessive crafter of to-do lists, and with dozens of Asheville articles online, it would be all too easy to model my trip after someone else’s. Checklists are not as fun as challenges. I will go my own way, and when it’s all said and done, I hope I get some time to just marvel at the trees.
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ASH AMBIRGE grew u in a trailer ark in cranton was or haned and slee ing in her car by y she turned her world around hy is she a wonder woman? he can e lain it better than we can “So why did I start this crazy online rally called The Middle Finger Project? Because sometimes, saying f*ck-you can change everything. It certainly did for me. Because you know what I did the night I found myself in Kmart parking lot with $26 to my name and no place in the world to go? The most selfish things I could think of. I opened my blog. Published a post. Asked people to take a chance. Told them I wanted their money. Started writing a book. Sold my car. Got on a plane. Flew to Chile. Wrote my ass off. Started a business. Figured it out. Danced and laughed. Drank and ate. Asked questions. Answered more. Worked hard. Closed Facebook. Ignored messages. Rejected convention. Traveled everywhere. And vowed to do only what felt good every day. And you know what happened as the result of my selfishness? I was finally able to give.” e elt a connection as soon as we ound her website ubscribe to sh s weekly column and get ins iration e ery hursday at heMiddleFingerProject.org.
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“ There’s a euphoria for one thing, there’s the ‘aha’ moment,’ she said, when a student clicks with a concept and you, the teacher, get to witness that.” – DR. MARY THORNLEY
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DR. MARY THORNLEY President of Trident Technical College
Becoming the president of Trident Technical College wasn’t part of Mary’s career plan. “I entered education to be a teacher,” she said. “I think the entrance to education is always the classroom.” She has taught English and speech, and she has taught at the high school level, the uni ersity le el and at a boys military institute he first connected with rident ech as a art time teacher there t wasn t until she went through a divorce and had two young children to support that she decided she needed to pursue another degree. She got her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction and even though she has been president of Trident Tech since 1991, Mary can’t forget the feeling of being in the classroom teaching students. “There’s a euphoria for one thing, there’s the ‘aha’ moment,” she said, when a student clicks with a concept and you, the teacher, get to witness that. As president she connects with that same source of excitement – hearing about the students’ success stories as the college creates pipelines for different sectors of employment from health care to hospitality for more than 15,000 students. Mary, who endorses diversity and inclusion, just received the 2017 MLK Humanitarian Award after being selected by a black history committee of employees and students at the college. She sees the classroom as the root of her own success too s ecifically the teachers she had as a youth was really born on the wrong side o the tracks in orth arolina she said. “For me getting an education meant it’s a way out.”
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“I’m always observing, asking questions and thinking about ways to improve.” – LORRAINE LUTTON
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Wandering in the Past “I continue wandering in the past, wondering where it will lead me.”
Driving down Roosevelt Road through Hillside, Illinois, commuters find themselves surrounded by two large cemeteries. Mount Carmel sits on the north side while Queen of Heaven stretches out to the south. The Catholic cemeteries are the final resting places of many of Chicago’s infamous gangsters, Cardinals and politicians, as well as the everyday people who lived in Chicago and the surrounding area since 1901. To me, an amateur genealogist and family history enthusiast, cemeteries are not a place of great sadness, nor the setting for a horror film. It is a life sized history book where some of the pages appear clean and crisp while others are stained and well-worn. As you enter the stone gated entrance of either cemetery, you will find a large, well-kept garden, carpeted in green grass as far as the eye can see. Stone monuments and statues dot the horizon, marking the final resting place of nearly 400,000 people. Mature trees are scattered throughout the cemetery. Their towering limbs protect the gravesites from Chicago’s unforgiving weather. Many of the trees have been planted by the animals who frequent the cemetery landscape, and in exchange for their planting, they offer a home to the squirrels, raccoons and birds. As the years pass, these animals are often the only visitors to countless older graves. There is a unique beauty in the artistry of cemetery monuments. Sculptors were hired by heartbroken family members to create likenesses of their loved ones, many which have outlasted the lifetime of those they are depicting. Others etch their stories in stone – beloved mother, faithful friend, brave soldier. Snow and rain darken the monuments over time. It is nature’s nod to the grieving family. I am consoled by the green moss that has grown on the shaded side of some stones. Life goes on, even though the light is now dim. The tumbled and cracked grave stones sadden me. Was it caused by weather and erosion? Was it the act of vandals? Or worse yet, could it be the careless workmanship in the creation of the stone, taking advantage of a distressed family? I bend down to see if I can make out the names on the stone, in the hopes that saying them out loud would offer the spirits some comfort. As I walk through the cemetery to find my ancestors, I marvel at the rows and rows of grave markers, perfectly aligned, despite the small hills and valleys that cover over 400 acres of cemetery property. The constant hum of landscape equipment remind us of the undeniable fact that below the beautiful green grass, the residents of the cemetery are constantly fertilizing this space. I love to find the oval picture frames that rest on the front of some grave markers. The photos of the deceased are black and white,
showing stern, unsmiling faces. Do those pictures do them justice? Probably not. But as a genealogist venturing through the cemetery to a grave for the first time, they are a welcome window peering back in time. I look for signs of familiarity – a common nose, eye squint or hairline – to make a connection to the person who has lived a whole lifetime before me. The map in my hand leads me to my last stop in the back corner of the cemetery. I stand there listening to the sounds of life invading this quiet, sacred space. Busy commuters create a steady buzz on the nearby Eisenhower Expressway. The wind carries the distant sound of Taps being played at a veteran’s funeral just over the hill. A backhoe engine hums to life just a few rows away, alerting the cemetery residents that a new member will soon join their club. I have reached the final resting place of my great-great grandparents and I am surprised by the difference in their separate headstones. The grandmother’s, who passed away first in 1920, is at least six feet tall with carvings on all four sides and a picture of her on the front. Thirteen years later, in the heart of the Depression, her husband’s grave is marked with a stone less than a foot tall with no more than his name and year of his birth and death. I wonder, did he have a falling out with his children or was the smaller stone just a sign of the financial reality of the Depression Era? Sadly, there is no one that can answer that question for me. I am left to weave their story to my liking. I run my hand over their names, carved out of marble, and think about their children and grandchildren who gathered around in this small space years ago. My grandmother, just a child when her grandparents died, is the bridge between them and me. Long ago she held their hands and years later, she held mine. A funeral brings family together from across the miles, many who haven’t seen each other in years. The cemetery serves as an unintentional venue for family reunions, complete with storytelling, pictures, laughter and tears. Was this the last time the whole family was together? The closing of the coffin lid signifies so much more than the loss of one family member. Death often loosens the ties that bind families together. As I walk to my car and make my way down the winding roads towards the exit, I feel the presence of those souls who have traveled here for the last time. They reach out to me, asking if I will take their stories with me – the ones known and the ones imagined. Thoughts of them follow me home where I continue wandering in the past, wondering where it will lead me.
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I Will Make History?
I am Brilliant?
According to a recent study in the Journal of Science, “By the age of 6, young girls are less likely than boys to view their own gender as brilliant.” Say what? The study goes on to say that boosting their motivation, exposing them to the countless amazing things that women have contributed to society and protecting them from the idea that they are not intellectually competitive may offer the best chance of convincing little girls that they are, in fact, smart enough. #girlpower
What You See is What You Get?
Wonder is a children's novel by Raquel Jaramillo, under the pen name of R. J. Palacio. Palacio wrote Wonder in 2012 after an incident where she and her three-year-old son were waiting in line to buy ice cream. Her son noticed a girl with facial birth defects. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl or her family but ended up worsening the situation.
In 1707, Henrietta Johnston begins to work as a portrait artist in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina, making her the first known professional woman artist in America. What will you be first in?
“THERE ARE NO LIMITS
OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE,
IMAGINATION, AND WONDER.” – Ronald Reagan
Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder" made her realize that the incident could teach society a valuable lesson.Palacio was inspired by Merchant's lyrics and she began writing.
Beauty is Only Skin Deep?
Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Mandy Patinkin star in “Wonder,” a drama about a young boy born with a facial deformity destined to fit in at a new school and to make everyone understand he's just another ordinary kid, and that beauty isn't skin deep. Opens April 7.
I Can Make A Difference?
International Women's Day is March 8, and this year's theme is #BeBoldForChange. Share how you're going to be bold this year at internationalwomensday.com/BeBold!
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BRIANNA KRAMER
BRIANNA KRAMER is a high school English teacher at Oceanside Collegiate Academy. She enjoys running and writing in her spare time. She admires her dad, Brian, most in life, and strives to be more like him every day. She lives in the Charleston area with her boyfriend, Nick, and two dogs.
Wondering About Wandering “Maybe, pinpointing why I haven’t travelled isn’t that important. Maybe, all that matters is I will.”
Growing up, I had never given travel much thought. My parents had never been out of the country and I lived in a small, two-stoplight town. Consequently, my idea of traveling was going to Ocean City, Maryland, for a family vacation, or to a nearby town for a cross country meet. It’s sad, but true. And my initial idea of traveling remained the same until I was in college. Again, sad but true. When I first attended college, I was still “in a relationship” with my high school boyfriend (whatever that means at that age). He attended a state school, with a reputation for partying, while I attended a Catholic University, which was dry; our schools were about two hours apart, so we were in a “short” distance relationship and living entirely different lifestyles (not a good mix). Naturally, things fell apart as the school year progressed, and before long, I realized that “in a relationship” was only according to me and facebook. Despite that I took him for granted in high school, I attempted to save our “short” distance relationship. Being one year older and in college made me suddenly view our relationship as a serious relationship. One that meant something to me. One that I was going to salvage and not let crash and burn. Thus, I insisted on meeting up “to talk” when we were both home from school. He agreed to do so. Thus, though we were officially broken up (according to me, him, and Facebook), we met up at a local coffee shop, or a nearby park to talk. Oddly enough, I can remember these get togethers well. On one occasion, we met up at a local coffee shop. My hair was down, and long at the time, and I was wearing a white peasant top and light blue jean shorts. He stated “you look good,” and offered to get me a drink when I arrived. I sipped on my medium iced coffee as we talked about life in general. How our parents were, how we were, and how school was. Once both the conversation and coffee went dry, we departed. I can still remember feeling confused and frustrated when we did. I set out to salvage our relationship, not to talk about life, and so I was a failure. The next time we met up at my parents house. I don’t recall anything leading up to his final words, but I have a flashbulb memory of his final words. We were outside, in my parents’ yard. He was walking to his car, which was parked where the front yard met the road. In order to avoid feeling like a failure for a second time, I rummaged up the courage to ask about our relationship. I don’t recall what I asked him, but I vividly remember him saying: “You’re just not the girl I’m going to marry.” And that this was the next and last time we met up “to talk.” Ironically, we both transferred to different colleges after our first year, and our colleges were pretty close to one another. However, despite being close physically, we were far apart emotionally, which ascertained that things were over. 42 marchw2017 skirt!magazine
Towards the middle of my sophomore year, I started dating someone new. As the end of my sophomore year approached, I started looking for something new. I told my dad I was looking for a summer internships in Philadelphia, which was just outside of my school. After hours of searching for internships in Philly on my college’s career service site, I clicked “international internships.” I applied to a TESOL certification program in Quito, Ecuador, and to my surprise, I was accepted. I had exactly $3.84 in my checking account when I decided I was going to Ecuador. When I initially told my dad, he was so terrified at the thought of his 20-year-old daughter going to a third-world country that he didn’t talk to me for a week. After I refused not to go and made a game plan to raise the money to be able to, my dad came around. He even agreed to pay my $500 deposit. Between waitressing and contacting civic organizations, family, and friends, I was able to come up with a little over $5,000 in just three weeks to cover the cost of the program and airfare. Traveling to Ecuador changed my life. Teaching underprivileged kids, climbing Volcan Cotopaxi, drinking coffee while at the same time overlooking the entire town of Banos, in Banos, canoping, rapelling down waterfalls and somehow meeting Ecuador’s president in Mindo, seeing blue footed boobies and tropical penguins in the Galapagos, all changed my life. To this day, and six years later, travelling to Ecuador was my only time out of the states. However, it is an experience that changed my idea of traveling in making me want to travel the world rather than the boardwalk at Ocean City, and thus is an experience that forever changed my life. Since it’s been so long since I’ve travelled out of the country though, I often wonder why. Part of me thinks I’ve grown afraid to travel, just like I’ve grown afraid to swim in the ocean. I used to swim in the ocean with ease and without thought, until one year I decided not to. Now that I stopped going in the ocean, I won’t, and I think it’s because I have forgotten what it is like to swim in the ocean and thus am afraid. Maybe this is why I haven’t travelled. Maybe we all have to travel, or we never will. There’s another part of me thinks I lack a motive, or the drive to travel. In looking back on my decision to go to Ecuador, I often wonder what made me so bold in wanting to go. The older I get, the more I think it might’ve started out as an effort to get my high school boyfriend back. He and his family travelled often, and when he said I wasn’t the girl he’d marry, I knew the kind of girl he was interested in marrying was one he could travel the world with. Maybe, pinpointing why I haven’t travelled isn’t that important. Maybe, all that matters is I will.
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The Charleston Wine + Food Festival Eat, drink and be merry at The Charleston Wine + Food Festival, which showcases, inspires, and supports Charleston and the Lowcountry’s rich culinary + hospitality community. Event info and tickets at CharlestonWineandFood.com.
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MARCH 3
The Gibbes Museum of Art Women’s Council presents Vern Yip, one of HGTV’s most distinguished and well-known designers for over 10 years, as part of the Museum’s Art of Design 2017. Luncheon, lecture and book signing at noon, Lenhardt Garden at the Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting Street. Tickets and details at gibbesartofdesign.wordpress.com.
Lexus Charleston Fashion Week® Showcasing emerging designer and model talent across the East Coast, the Lexus Charleston Fashion Week® has fast become one of the premier fashion events in North America since its founding in 2007. Held under the tents in arion uare in harleston this fi e night celebration features more than 35 runway shows, the Emerging Designer Competition: East, and the Rock the Runway Model Competition™. Get your tickets at CharlestonFashionWeek.com. 2017!
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Kiawah Arts & Cultural Events Council Grammy-nominated musician/producer and world-renowned drummer Quentin E. Baxter presents an jazz vocalist Annie Selleck. In partnership with the Kiawah Arts & Cultural Events Council, Selleck will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Turtle Point Clubhouse on Kiawah. $20 general admission tickets on sale now.
MARCH 10
Madeleine Peyroux and Rickie Lee Jones The Charleston Gaillard Center Presents Madeleine Peyroux and Rickie Lee Jones for a powerhouse wonder woman concert, 7:30 p.m. Get your tickets before they sell out at gaillardcenter.comI!
Cash’d Out, a tribute to Johnny Cash Don’t miss Cash’d Out, a tribute to Johnny Cash, at the Charleston Pour House main stage. Doors open at 8:30 and the show begins at 9:30 p.m. Get your tickets early at charlestonpourhouse.com!
MARCH 15 Leprechaun 5K Run/Walk Lace up for the Catch the Leprechaun 5K Run/Walk at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds will benefit acers or acers and rtist Guild & Theatre Company. Memorial Waterfront Park, Mount Pleasant. Sign up and create your fundraising page at catchtheleprechaun5k.com.
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EWGA Do you play golf, want to learn or get back into the game? EWGA welcomes all skill levels to our information meeting. Join us at 6:30 p.m. at the Dunes West Gold & River Club, 3535 Wando Plantation Way, Mt. Pleasant, SC. For more info. visit, ewga.com.
MARCH 14 Fern Mallis The JCC WOW Bookfest proudly presents the legendary Fern Mallis, internationally known fashion consultant, creator of New York Fashion Week, lead judge at Charleston Fashion Week and author of Fashion Lives: Icons with Fern Mallis, as she discusses her book, a compilation of interviews with movers and shakers in the fashion industry. Books will be sold and signed by Fern Mallis at the event. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at The Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street.
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MARCH 17 The Miracle Worker The Miracle Worker, one of the most acclaimed dramas of all time—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, the Academy Award for Best Picture and garnering the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, comes to the Dock Street Theatre in a new production from Charleston Stage. The show runs through April 2, tickets and showtimes at charlestonstage.com.
MARCH 17-19 The Annual Charleston Antiques Show is a premier destination for collectors and enthusiasts who enjoy seeing and learning about incorporating antiques into modern-day decor. Through the Show's educational and entertaining events, collectors have a unique opportunity to purchase and learn more about everything from e uisite urniture and fine art to rare ma s ewelry posters, prints and quilts. Event listing and tickets at historiccharleston.org/Events/Charleston-Antiques-Show.
MARCH 18 Rugged Maniac Now’s the time to triple-dog-dare your most adventurous friends to join you at Rugged Maniac, a mud run plus so much more: costumes, stein-hoisting contests, mechanical bull, beach volleyball, and a crazy mudcovered obstacle course with trampolines, water slides, followed by a pie eating contest. Boone Hall Plantation, tickets at ruggedmaniac.com/events/southcarolina/.
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MARCH 18-19 Pet Fest Pets and their owners are invited to join Charleston County Parks for a weekend of exhibits, demonstrations, experts, entertainment, and more at Charleston’s premiere pet festival! Pet Fest provides an opportunity for local pet-related organizations and businesses to showcase their causes, products and services in a fun, animal-friendly environment. Leashed pets are welcome with their owners! Or, come to the festival in search of your new best friend from area rescue groups, who will have adoptable animals on site. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Mount Pleasant Palmetto Islands County Park.
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The Brick Fest Live LEGO Fan Experience provides a venue for LEGO lovers of all sizes to celebrate, build new creations, and see some truly mind-blowing LEGO sculptures to help set the imagination free. Charleston Area Convention Center. Tickets and event info at events.brickfestlive.com.
MARCH 21 Every Tuesday starting at 5 p.m., The Cocktail Club will offer a “Craft Your Own Cocktail” option for a set price of $9.00. 479 King Street, thecocktailclubcharleston.com.events/southcarolina/.
MARCH 23 Chaquis Maliq Hit up 492 King and see EccentroSoul 1 Woman Band, Chaquis Maliq (Sha-Kees Mah-Leek), deliver the sound of Eccentric Tasteful Grooves and Honey Soul.
MARCH 24 Jeanne Robertson – North Charleston Theater Once a tiara-toting pageant queen who won 1963's Miss North Carolina and, unsurprisingly, Miss Congeniality in the Miss America competition, Jeanne Robertson reinvented herself as a humorist and professional orator. In fact, it was in her pageant days that Robertson learned that she could make people laugh. Drawing on her own life experiences, Robertson keeps audiences in stitches with tales ranging from her beauty days to the trials of getting older. 7:30 p.m. at North Charleston Theater, NorthCharlestonTheater.com for tickets.
1. Describe your blog. My blogs (for Skirt and my own, Stilettos Not Required) are about transitions – from working to retired, from young to not-so-young, from mother to em ty nester and about finding the oy and the lessons in those transitions. 2. Where is the most exciting place you ever traveled to? Either the Galapagos, with the wildlife that didn’t know enough to be scared of humans, or China. The terracotta warriors were haunting; each had its own e ression like a field o ro en men nd the culture was so alien to me; to be fair, I was alien to them, too. I was surrounded by a group of elderly women who stroked my face. My guide said they had never seen skin that white. True story. 3. What do you wonder about? Everything. I am insatiably curious. Sit next to me and I’ll get your life story out of you! 4. Who do you consider to be a Wonder Woman? With all due modesty, I am. And you are. Not all the time, but at any given moment, every woman who stumbles through life with grace and hope and humor is Wonder Woman! 5. Books on your nightstand? I read several at a time. Right now, I’m slowly savoring, “All The Light We Cannot See” and an oldie-butgoody, Nathalie Dupree’s “Matters of Taste.” 6. Favorite thing about skirt! magazine? The effervescence – reading it just makes me happy.
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