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Don’t engrave them on your soul. Champagne pairs well with both toasts and tears. “An opportunity for growth” is generally an assignment no one wants. Pay attention to accidents—they might not be. A sexy text is a firecracker;
A Handwritten Letter is a love bomb. There’s no refund on the time you spend watching TV. An ironed pillowcase is one of life’s affordable luxuries. Face it…your dog won’t walk faster because you’re in a hurry. You are not your resumé, you are not your resumé, you are not your resumé. When you cross a finish line, always have a new start in mind. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Ali Douglass
“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.” Tom Robbins
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Essays
Just Between Us
Stacy Appel....................................................................................... 9
Graphic Designer
All Things Dooley
Cher Wheeler Meaghan Pafford Photography Molly Harrell Sara Caldwell
The Advice Issue
Lisa Leshaw.................................................................................... 10 Women make more than 80% of all purchasing decisions.
Care and Feeding of a 40 Year Old
Amy Vansant ................................................................................ 32
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Features
Letter from the Publisher.......................................................... 6 Women control 2/3 of the nation’s disposable income.
Letter from the Editor................................................................ 6
Feel Good....................................................................................... 14 Women influence 80% of all car sales.
He’s So Original........................................................................... 22
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XOXOnikki.................................................................................... 38
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THE UNITED SKIRTS OF AMERICA
The United Skirts of America was founded on the blood, sweat and estrogen of our
The Advice Issue
foremothers, who
While working on this issue, I’ve been thinking about the very good, very sensible
won us the freedom to
advice I’ve been given in the past that I’ve completely ignored. Like, “For god’s sake,
choose...to break The
don’t elope with that white trash boy!” Did I take it? No! Should I have taken it?
Rules, to wear combat boots or high heels, to Ali Douglass
Ali Douglass was born in Muncie, Indiana, and after enjoying life in Boston, Kan-
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Unequivocally, yes! But if I hadn’t made it through 10 years of mental and physical abuse, thanks to a mysteriously stubborn survival instinct, would I be the person I am today? Maybe there was an easier way to shake the dust of high school and low
run for office or run a
expectations, but I’m pretty sure that instead I would have stayed in Kentucky all my
marathon, to form our
life being bitter and unfulfilled because I’d never made it out of town. Or how about
own rock groups instead
the advice my mother gave me when my marriage broke up? “Get a job with the post
of being groupies, to
office!” Instead, I started college at 29, on the face of it a selfishly stupid decision by a single mother of three with no money. But if I hadn’t ignored her, I’d have missed out
sas City, New York City, and
shatter Glass Ceilings
San Francisco, she is happy
and Glass Slippers, to
world of big ideas. And when I moved to South Carolina after one of those great loves
to be living in Asheville,
shoot hoops instead
went sour, everyone thought I’d lost my mind. I had, of course, but living down and
NC. She has been working
of settling for hoop
out on the beach was just the healing experience I needed to move on. I’m not sure
as an illustrator for more
skirts. The ones who
than 13 years, illustrating
came before us made
magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, advertising, and more than 25 books. Her work has been recognized by American Illustration, Step Inside Design,
I could have done it otherwise. Later, when I decided to start a magazine, plenty of people gently pointed out that I had no experience, no business plan, no money. If I’d taken those objections to heart, I wouldn’t be writing this editorial today, so thanks,
it possible for our
naysayers, for tapping into my FU spirit. And when I was impelled by a nagging voice
daughters to dream
last year that said I needed to go on what I thought of as “walkabout”—three weeks
bigger, to have the
in New York City, a city that scared the confidence out of me—I know my friends
chance to grow up to be President and turn
L.A. Society of Illustrators,
the Oval Office into
readymade.com, sfgirlbybay.
the Ovary Office. In
com, and apartmenttherapy.
the United Skirts of
com. Books she has illustrat-
America, every day is
ed for American Girl have
Independence Day!
been winners of the 2008
on two of the greatest loves of my life and a mind-bending, eye-opening ticket to the
thought it was emotional disaster in the making for an introvert and homebody. And they were right. It was initially isolating and lonely and terrifying. But it was also one of the best pieces of advice I ever ignored.
Nikki
publisher@skirt.com
FROM THE EDITOR Citizens gathered at a forum mid-February to share thoughts on making Columbia friendlier for cyclists and pedestrians. Urban planners were graciously asking for our advice. I sat in the back and listened as people offered ideas. Some were extravagant (underground tunnels), others more basic (finish sidewalks, plant trees),
Children’s Choice Award,
but all were given with good will, as the best advice should be. One panelist asked us to think about cities
International Reading Asso-
we’d visited, what we’d seen that worked. I thought about Oslo, Norway. I was charmed by a difference there
ciation and Children’s Book
that’s hard to describe. The best I’ve come up with is “people first.” It felt like a city that put people ahead
Council, and winner of the
of traffic flow, business efficiency, or any of those other things we seem to value so much. When I stepped
2007 Excellence in Financial
off the curb, cars stopped without screeching to a halt. When I wished there was a place to rest a bag while
Literacy Award (EIFLE), In-
I searched for my wallet, some thoughtful designer had provided just that. Maybe that was Oslo’s unspoken
stitute for Financial Literacy.
advice to me. People first. Something to remember when I’m waiting (impatiently) in my car for a pedestrian to totter across Assembly or Gervais.
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I always think a peak moment has to be the result of an outsize experience like jumping out of a plane or summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. But on a walk one recent afternoon, the sun was coloring outside the lines in bleak midwinter, the sky was an exceptional eye-of-God blue, and I was listening to "Days Don't Fade" by Lindbergh Palace at full tilt on my earphones. Suddenly, all these little factors lined up like a row of cherries on a slot machine for a peak-moment payoff, and the world vibrated with meaning for a few euphoric seconds. Lucky, lucky me!
W h a t ’s k e e p i n g m e a w a k e a t n i g h t : Looking forward to:
Buckets of daffodils Spring fever March Madness One fabulous pair of shoes Power walking Piercing my ears One fabulous house guest Sunlight savings time.
Transatlantic night-flight fantasies Tax time nightmares Missing Target’s Prabal Gurung launch Full moon hormones Compulsive iTunes shopping Too much Meiomi Pinot Noir Mentally packing and repacking my suitcase Running out of memory on my Mac My running wish-I-hadn’t list Damages binge-a-thon
W h a t ’s o n m y i Pa d : I never get tired of the Flipboard app. This digital magazine collects news from dozens and dozens of different publications that I choose and then throws it up on the screen like a magic lantern show of messages from the world—some of it trivial, some of it deep, all of it constantly changing—a mashup that I have to sift through and choose to pause on or pass on by. The iPhoneography section is just one of the curiosities I might not have found had it not been on the Flipboard menu.
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W h a t ’s o n m y m i n d : The 90-day yoga challenge I signed up for requires four classes a week, and that can include group meditation sessions, which I’m starting to crave. I enrolled in the challenge because I needed to poke a stick at my life, to get it moving again. Now, every tiny change I sense in my body and mind is like green spring growth after a gray, stagnant winter.
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