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IN THIS ISSUE
This issue, we’ll give you a “two-do” list, what we heart (and you will too), touching and funny essays about matters of the heart, an open letter to the Hallmark holiday we all love to hate, pairs we love and adore (at the table and at the bar), and pages of dos, don’ts, and pro tips for an amazing wedding day, whether yours is near or far, and sage advice “in her own words” from the 17-year-old founder of the #NOTYOURGIRL campaign that just might make you re-think how you feel about yourself. Instead of “meet-cutes,” we have profiles of perfect pairs—people who are great on their own, but together? Smashing success. So skip the chalky Valentine’s candy hearts and settle into this month’s issue with a fine red and a box of the best dark chocolates you can get your gorgeous hands on. We had so much fun putting this issue together, thank you for letting us show our love for you!
Theme: The It Takes Two Issue ....................29 Style...................................................................37 They’re So Original: John Lewis and Philip Powers .....................40 Dear Made Up Holiday ................................42 Profile: Liz Lyday and Chrissie Batten .....................44 Profile: Leslie Chapman and Marion Blount .........48 What They Said ..............................................50 29 Days of Love .............................................52
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in her own
words
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
Spencer George is a 17-year-old writer, feminist, and blogger. She is the founder of the #NOTYOURGIRL campaign, which encourages young girls to embrace their true selves.
I love myself.
acne, cellulite. The list goes
and for a long time, I was
I say this without pretension
on. It is never ending. Our
taught to believe that I
or arrogance. Often, when
flaws are turned against us
should feel shame in that fact.
we talk of self-love, we
in order to generate profit.
But I am not ashamed. It
speak of it with disdain.
Self-love has been turned
took me years to realize
JUST THE FACTS:
The dictionary provides
into an industry, and it is not
that I could be happy on my
two definitions: “the regard
designed to help us.
own. I kept saying “one day.”
for one’s own happiness or
I never disliked my
One day I’ll be beautiful.
advantage” and “conceit.” If
appearance until I began
One day I’ll be loved. One
you look up the words “self-
to study the models in
day I’ll be happy. Then, one
Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape.
love” in the thesaurus, you
magazines and wonder why
day, I realized true happiness
are presented with synonyms
I didn’t look like them. Their
came from within, and that
such as “narcissism,” “vanity”
lives seemed perfect, and it
made all the difference.
and “vainglory.”
was easy to imagine that they
I love myself.
Why do the two definitions
had fancy apartments, hot
I say this without conceit or
differ so vastly? Why is it
boyfriends, and active social
vanity, but with acceptance.
that accepting yourself is
lives- none of which I had. I
We do not need other
synonymous with egotism?
was in middle school.
people to make us happy;
Rather than acknowledging
My entire life I had been told
our worth is dependent
our flaws, we are taught
that “it takes two.” That, as a
upon our own perception
to disdain them, to focus
young girl, I should spend my
of it.
upon them endlessly. Every
time looking beautiful and
Say it with me now:
magazine features articles on
searching for my other half. I
I love myself.
losing weight, fixing wrinkles,
have never dated anyone,
Only 5% of women naturally possess the body type portrayed in the media. 58% of college-aged girls feel pressured to be a certain weight.
Spencer is a student at Ashley Hall in Charleston.You can find her blogging at notyourgirl.org, drinking coffee at Starbucks, or working on her most recent novel.
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ALISON HARRIMAN Alison Harriman is a lover of words, writing, and reading who teaches college writing, and sometimes short stories, at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is also a wife, mother of three young adults, and a gym rat.
Together for the Long Haul WE H AD N O MO N EY, BU T BOY DI D WE HAVE F UN.
The first time I caught my parents having just had sex, I subconsciously knew I wanted some of that. As my father exited the bedroom holding his boxer shorts in front of him, my mother glowed in the aftermath while her red lace panties lay on the rug beside the bed. Later, that same summer, I kissed a boy for the first time in the rental house next to ours in Sea Isle City, NJ. The kiss wasn’t special. I was 10. Over the next few years, I began falling in “love” on a regular basis. My best girlfriend was two years older, and I learned what to look for from her. I quickly fell into the pattern of boy watching on the beach by day and the boardwalk by night. We hung out with some orphan boys who stayed in a large house by the ocean sponsored by the Catholic Church. In the winters, she hung around with a large crowd of guys and girls in South Philly. Through junior high and early high school, I ‘dated’ a few of her friends which amounted to a lot of nervous handholding and a few quick kisses on the front stoop, edging into longer kisses at high school parties. When it came to real love, I suppose I can lay claim to three. Like Goldilocks, I tried a variety. The first was close to my age, but sadly boring and predictable. The next one was much older. When he got sick, he quickly grew meaner until he became a danger to my well-being. Then, one day as I stood in La Crepe, the mall restaurant where I waitressed, it happened. I found my one and only. I was standing near the cash register, and he was behind the bar filling the ice bins. He stood up and turned toward me, and I melted at the sight of his dark curly hair, his lean 6’2” frame, and his startling blue eyes that looked like cracked marbles. We briefly made eye contact. “Who the hell is that?” I whispered to my girlfriend, Kathy, who was working the register. “’Him?’ that’s just my kid brother, Stephen,” she replied as if I was crazy. “He’s working here until he leaves for the Air Force.” A few weeks later, Kathy invited me to a party at her aunt’s house because I was lonely. I drank my first beer ever while sitting next to Stephen as we played poker with a tableful of their relatives, and then I drank a couple more. Despite breaking the “girl rule” of never getting involved with a friend’s brother, I fell for this several-years-youngerthan-me, sexy, quiet guy with a dry sense of humor who was planning to leave PA for basic training. He seemed “just right” as Goldilocks would have said. We were soon dating which made Kathy livid, so we were soon dating in ‘secret’ even though they were sharing the rent on an apartment. Months passed and he left for Lackland AFB, in TX. We continued to talk all the time and wrote each other sexy, romantic letters. When he came home on his first leave,
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he visited me, not his family. I had never known such passion or such longing when he had to leave. Soon, we made plans to marry in June of 1982. He came home for our backyard wedding, but after two weeks he left to start working with flight simulators. Then, in September he came to whisk me off to Mountain Home, ID, where he was stationed for the next few years. We drove across the country in a U-haul truck towing my little Nissan and having “I’ve-missedyou-so- much” sex in a number of motels as we passed through state after state. At last, we were finally alone thousands of miles from everyone we had ever known in military housing in the middle of a one-horse desert. Stephen’s mother was sure this move would make or break us as a couple. It made us. We had no money, but boy did we have fun. We traveled all over the NW with a two man tent and an inflatable air mattress that we christened in campground after campground. We eventually covered the whole West coast from Carmel to Port Angeles, WA, and up to Victoria Island, Banff, Lake Louise, and east to Calgary. We camped outside the Tetons and Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, and Lake Tahoe. We visited zoos and baseball fields hand in hand, step by step. We lost a child together in Mountain Home, and we gave birth to our first daughter there. Then, we drove across the country with our Black Lab and a three-week-old to Dayton, OH where Stephen trained for his first civilian job. We then drove to Abilene, TX, where we lived for nearly two yearsmaking the most fun out of our few dollars and our new family. We lost another baby there, but we grew closer as we watched our joyous daughter grow. When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, his company was going to move us to North Dakota. Instead, he got a job in PA, so we packed ourselves up and drove home. We lived with his mother for nearly a year. I became pregnant with our second daughter there and two weeks before she was born, he landed a new job that paid for her delivery, allowed him to stay with us for a week after her birth, and we signed papers for our first house. While living there, we had our son and started the kids in school. When Stephen was offered a promotion, we took off once again to make a home together in NH. For the last 16 years, we have raised our three children, put them through college, married one off and survived job losses and changes, cancer, and the passing of two dogs- together. When I was 10, I thought the gleam in my mother’s eye was everything. As we move toward our 34th anniversary this June, I know that without Stephen, my life would have been a lot more boring and a lot lonelier. As my mother said when I first told her about him, “The good thing about the young ones is that you can train them.” Lucky for me, he has been a quick study.
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John Lewis and Philip Powers preside over the BBQ pit. John, a former pastry chef, first fell for the smoked stuff in Austin, Texas. He started smoking meat with a homemade smoker made of trash cans before hitting
to sausage—with wood fire.
the Austin food scene as La
“That’s the traditional way
Barbecue pitmaster. Then he
of doing it,” John says. “It’s
fell for Charleston. “Barbecue
got more depth of flavor
is what I do, so that’s what
and texture.” It also takes
I’m doing here,” he says. The
time—between the brisket
pitmaster and Philip, assistant
smoking by day and the rest
pitmaster, plan to open Lewis
by night, the smokers will be
Barbecue in the spring of
running almost 24/7. Keeping
2016. This time, they’ll use
with the Texas-meat-market
John’s personally designed
style, customers can pick out
smokers made of thousand-
their meats and eat them off
gallon recycled propane tanks
butcher paper. “It’s gonna be
with controllable air flow.
fun,” John says. “The meat is
“What we have in common
gonna be sliced in front of
is an attention to detail,”
your face.” As for stuffing
Philip says. They smoke every
your face, Philip will use his
piece of meat—from brisket,
formal culinary training to
to beef ribs, to pork ribs, to
help develop additional menu
turkey, to pork shoulders,
items. Think Tex-Mex dishes, sides like coleslaw and mac and cheese, and sweets like ice cream and pies. “You’ll see all the smokers, you’ll see us cooking,” John says. “It’s kind of like Disneyland for barbecue.”
BBQ BASH
Photo by Alice Keeney
We’re excited about two events at the March 2-6 Wine + Food Festival: March 6, “Toasted: Up in Smoke” at the Cedar Room, Cigar Factory; come hungry, thirsty, and with boots on!
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february What do single people call Valentine’s Day? Happy Independence Day.
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Dear Made Up Holiday We need to talk. I know you’re all about celebrating the love, but don’t you think you’re coming on
clear out. It seems there were
a bit strong?
more floral arrangements than
We’ve been avoiding the shelves of pink and white and red
people at work today. Which is probably because
Hershey’s Kisses and M&Ms for
everyone was super busy posting
two months at the grocery store
their engagements on Facebook.
now. Seriously, there’s such a thing
Do you know how many things
as too much sugar as a substitute
you can make in heart shapes
for love.
for an engagement photo? One
Speaking of, did you know that candy hearts taste like chalk?
thousand, two-hundred and fiftyone. We counted.
At 60 calories for a serving of
Our Pinterest boards are
twelve... their only redeeming
aspirational, not inspirational.
quality is the message stamped
We want to, but we’re not really
on each dusty surface. And it’s
going to find the time for
not even that deep. We will add
“32 Fun and Flirty Ways to Spoil
30 calories and pour ourselves a
Your Sweetie,” so let’s relax a
glass of champagne. And, can we
little bit on those expectations.
get a new copywriter for Brachs?
A simple “I love you” will do.
As for real food, all we want
And if we needed another
is to go out to dinner free
nudge off the edge of the candy-
from the hordes with romantic
pink cliff, Starbucks is getting in
reservations and public displays
on the V-Day game with three
of affection by flickering
themed frappucinos:The Valentine,
candlelight. We’ll take a burger for
The Love Bean, and the Java
one and a glass of wine, please.
Berry. We thought we’d had it up
Actually, make that a bottle.
to here in the fall with pumpkin
A box of Kleenex, too, if you’d be so kind. We have a day’s worth of pollen inhalation to
spiced everything...please don’t let this become a trend. Everything about this fake holiday makes single people hate
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Liz Lyday and Chrissie Batten joined forces with Indigo Market. These acquaintances could have been competitors. They both had furniture booths at Mount Pleasant Mall. But Liz says they had a similar aesthetic and the same idea: why not join forces? They
painted by the pair and some
opened Indigo Market on
is meant to be fixed up by
Morrison Drive to feature
the buyer. Chrissie says, “It’s
a lot of new merchandise
a fun, relaxed look and the
ranging from art, to furniture,
pieces that we find have been
to jewelry. They spotlight
around for a long time.” So
a variety of vendors, too,
expect items with a little bit
largely from Florida. “A lot
of wear and tear, that are still
of our furniture is vintage,”
in great shape. And expect a
Liz says of the 1970s theme.
new experience. “Each time
“We’re trying to bring a
you come we want it to be
product people desire to
different,” Liz says. “We want
Charleston.” The goal is to
you to see something new
let customers mix old and
and fun that you haven’t seen
new to create “that collected-
before.” Indigo Market is
over-time look.” Some of the
open six days a week and the
furniture is lacquered and
women are always available by appointment. Chrissie’s advice: “Don’t be afraid to mix in a vintage piece that’s not perfect with the things you have at your house. Even though something’s not brand-new, it still has some
Photo by Alice Keeney
worth. It has a little life.”
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02.2016 Destination: Balsam Mountain Inn, NC
“Rest and be thankful.” William Wadsworth
Swap ocean spray for a mountain-air getaway. Reserve a room a half-mile off February Music: Who doesn’t love the strumming of a guitar? Master guitarist Richard Smith, possibly accompanied by his wife, cellist Julie Adams, performs at the Inn 6-10 p.m. Feb. 27. Valentine’s Package: Celebrate Valentine’s Day Eve (February 13th) at the Inn with Nashville songwriter Henry Hipkens. He’s in charge of organizing the Valentine’s Day Songwriters in the Round performance at 6 p.m. A price tag of $49 gets you romantic tunes plus a buffet dinner. Where to Ski Slice through the snow for a day at Cataloochie Ski Area in Maggie Valley. There are ski and snowboard rentals available and 16 slopes and trails to choose from.
the Blue Ridge Parkway and settle in for some peaceful porch time. The rooms in the Balsam Mountain Inn, built in 1908 and known as the “Grand Old Lady of Balsam,” are free of TVs and phones, and quiet hours begin at 10 p.m. Settle in at 3,500 feet with a soak in a clawfoot tub, surrounded by history. The Balsam Mountain Inn was originally built as a 100-room hotel serving guests arriving by rail. The corridors were actually constructed with a width meant to accommodate visitors’ steamer trunks. Though the times have changed, the venue has offered 50 rooms and suites ever since its 1990 restoration. While you’re exploring the space (hint: there’s a library), don’t overlook the “Art in the Mountains” hallway gallery spotlighting the works of local artists and craftsmen. Enjoy the silence. It’s so rare these days!
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Order: The Balsam BLT for lunch at the Inn. Translation: Local greens and tomatoes sandwiched between seared slices of Texas toast. Don’t Miss: The Cherokee entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s 25 minutes north and the closest trail is the 1.5mile Oconaluftee River Trail. Pack a bottle of water. And a flask of whiskey. We’re in the south, in the land of the people who need a shot of fire to survive the cold.
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Leslie Chapman and Marion Blount have a knack for entertaining. The pair launched their Open Door Charleston blog in 2012 to share recipes, design ideas and entertaining essentials. “We both grew up in households where our families were entertaining, our
And just before the New
parents were throwing dinner
Year, their endeavor led them
parties,” Marion says. “After
to Line Street, where they
college, we both started
opened a brick-and-mortar
enjoying doing that—but with
store. “It was like a dream
paper plates.” Luckily, that fits
come true,” Marion says.
their style. “We keep it casual
That dream features hostess
because that’s who we are,”
gifts, a wedding registry
says Marion, whose creative
and items from the same
approach complements
vendors that are featured on
Leslie’s classic approach. “We
the website, who hail from
knew if we did something
South Carolina and up the
creative like a blog, it would
east coast to New York. That
lead somewhere else. We just
dream also features an even
didn’t know where.” One year
split of tasks: Leslie handles
after it began, Open Door
the day-to-day business and
evolved into an online store
the financials while Marion
(OpenDoorShop.com) for home
mans the website and social
décor and entertainment.
media responsibilities. But they both get to revel in the buying process. Pro tip: Peruse their popular serving pieces, like the top-seller, a wooden pineapple bowl. Whether you’re a veteran or first-time entertainer, all you have to do, Marion says, is “stay true to your style.”
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Saramel Evans and Sara Grimshaw serve up health with a side of love. These certified Jivamukti yoga teachers met when they were servers at Cypress. Now they’re serving vegetarian and vegan dishes at their new President Street establishment, Gnome. Sara, who was inspired by her yoga practice to embrace veganism, says, “I feel happier, I feel healthier. I want other people to realize how good it feels.” One feel-good dish is the hemp sausage biscuit for breakfast. “We’re going for the fast-food biscuit vibe with a fluffy, buttery biscuit,” Sara says. (Think hemp seeds plus pepper jelly garnish.) Then there is the fried seitan sandwich available for lunch (with a buffalo-style option), which Sara says has the same mouth-feel as chicken. Their restaurant has a feeling, too.
“We wanted something that felt kind of green, felt kind of natural but didn’t feel in-yourface,” she says. So the name “Gnome” hits the spot—it has the same sound of the words “home,” and “om.” Besides, both women love the story and illustrations behind the children’s book called “Gnomes,” which depicts the creatures as vegetarian. While you may not find actual gnomes when you step into their café, you can expect to find Sara in the kitchen with chef Terese Dessuit, while Saramel flashes her hostess skills in the front of the space. Saramel’s take is that, for customers going the vegetarian/vegan route, “there doesn’t have to be any harm in what they eat, it doesn’t have to be hard.” As for the secret ingredient throughout? “We use a lot of love,” Saramel says.
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Photo by Alice Keeney TEN QUESTIONS WE JUST HAD TO ASK SARAMEL AND SARA 3 veggies that are always in your fridge? Kale, carrots, and celery.
Favorite ethnic food? Ethiopian
Go to Food Truck? Diggity Donuts.
The 5 people at your dream dinner (dead or alive)? Dharma Mittra, Dalai Lama, Bob Marley, Princess Diana and Ram Dass.
Cookbook every vegetarian should own? Veganomicon
What kind of music is playing? Stevie Wonder Radio.
Favorite in-store Veggie Burger brand? Amy’s Bistro Burger.
If Anthony Bourdain walked into Gnome, what would you insist he order? Probably the Southern Grit Bowl (but then we would give him a hemp sausage biscuit).
Spices you always have on hand? Smoked paprika, turmeric and cumin.
The question you get most about the food you serve? “What is Seitan?”
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JESS HERNANDEZ Jess Hernandez is a Northwest native and the mother of two. She’s married to the bastard son of a Spanish pop star and has a form of mutant diabetes.
Disgusting Is the New Sexy I N S O ME OT H ER BEDRO OM, T H IS C O U L D EAS I LY BE S O ME S O RT O F FI FT Y SHADES REENAC TMENT, B U T IT ’S N OT. I N FACT, N OT H I N G CO U LD BE F URTHER FRO M T H E T R U T H . It’s my first time and I’m nervous as all hell. I’m lying on my side, naked with my head resting on a down pillow. My legs curl under me and I face the wall. My husband stands out of sight behind me, but I know he’s holding something in his hand. It’s white and bullet-shaped and meant to go in my rear end. “This might be uncomfortable at first,” he says, “but I think you might come to appreciate it.” Neither his words nor the Brahms in the background manage to sooth my anxiety. I grit my teeth. His hand on my bottom makes me yelp. “I haven’t even done anything yet. Just relax,” he says. In some other bedroom, this could easily be some sort of Fifty Shades reenactment, but it’s not. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. My dutiful husband is helping me insert a hemorrhoid suppository. Normally I would consider this above and beyond the call of spousal duty, but I am so hugely pregnant I can no longer maneuver enough to do it myself. I look like a T-Rex with glandular issues. My husband takes another run at me and finishes the job. “Heigh ho, Hemorrhoid, away!” I grunt. Rolling over, I see him calmly removing a blue latex glove and tossing it in the trash. His eyes crinkle with amusement, but I see no sign of the revulsion I fear. He’s just seen me at my absolute worst—puffy, petulant, and with a hemorrhoid that’s growing into a vestigial tail. In short, I am all kinds of hideous. And then he pulls me close and gives me a kiss. “No worries,” he says. “I still love you.” Our standards for acceptable behavior as a couple have dropped considerably in the last nine years. I think back to the first time our relationship drifted from indecorous to downright disgusting. We’d been married a whopping two days. My new husband stood in the hotel bathroom, looking over his shoulder and examining his back in the mirror. I sat on the loveseat reading. “Hey, babe,” he called, “can you give me a hand for a second?” “Sure,” I said, tossing the book aside and hustling to assist. (I was rather eager to please as a new bride–kind of like a Labrador puppy.) “What do you need?”
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“Can you pop this zit on my back? I can’t reach it.” He gestured to a massive whitehead on his shoulder blade. The thing was gigantic. I half expected it to sprout limbs, push itself free, and climb down under its own power. “You want me to pop your pimple for you?” I repeated, aghast. My can-do good wife attitude wilted a little. This was not supposed to happen on a honeymoon. Honeymoons were for sex and romance and birds chirping 80’s love ballads while doing fly-bys in heart formation. Potentially squirting myself with another person’s puss did not figure into the equation. Besides, weren’t you supposed to keep a little mystery in your relationship? Isn’t that what everyone said? I’d read articles about that sort of stuff during our engagement, confident that with enough research, I would knock this marriage thing out of the park. There’d been nothing in the literature about pimples. “Do you mind?” my husband asked, unaware of my internal struggle. “It really hurts.” I steeled my resolve and tried to ignore my revulsion. My sweetheart was in pain. I had to act. It was every bit as gross as I had imagined. And it only got worse. In the next few years, I mopped up vomit, trimmed errant ear hair, and sat with him while he prepped for not one, but two colonoscopies. I checked incision scars after his gallbladder was removed, learned to trim back hair with a set of clippers, and put cream on a hard-to-reach foot fungus. On his side, he caught a sneeze in the mouth while making out, got puked on, and witnessed my “pooping on the table during childbirth” routine. The suppository is just one more item on a growing list of gross stuff. And as I sit here with my bum in the air about as vulnerable as a person can be, I realize something I didn’t understand as a blushing bride: it’s okay to be gross with your spouse. In fact, while I’d never aspire to be in the position, I’m glad this is the kind of relationship we have. Because if I have to choose between having mystery in my marriage and having trust—the kind of trust that lets you be unabashedly disgusting because you know the other person will still love you—I’m going to choose the trust every time. But I definitely wouldn’t choose the hemorrhoid. That just plain sucked.
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Imagining a better world out there starts by imagining a better one in here. Children’s minds can take them anywhere. And while they imagine a world of dinosaurs and spaceships, no child imagines themselves in a hospital. Which is why we’re building one like no other in the world. With specially trained caregivers, medicine and technology, we’ll protect the world they imagine. Imagine What’s Possible
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