Sasee Magazine

Meet three young women you’d love to hate – if they weren’t so nice. They’re gorgeous, stylish, and smart. They are acknowledged over-achievers with prestigious academic credentials, impressive careers, handsome, helpful husbands and adorable children. The three good friends, attorney Ashley Morrison, speech pathologist Amy Wilkes, and physician Jennifer Merritt, sat down with Sasee to [...]

I met Jess Sagun, director of Abiding Village, at their storefront gallery/studio, located in the old Waccamaw Outlet Mall off Highway 501. As she showed me around the beautiful facility, telling me the details of what she does and why, I was immediately glad that our community has someone like Jess, and a ministry like [...]

It’s a new year, a fresh start. Many of use are eager to wipe the slate clean and begin anew. Some are motivated by harsh economic realities of 2009, others by a deep persistent nudge to move in new directions, to re-invent or re-kindle inner spirits. For yet others, the tapestry of life has become [...]

In many and varied ways, Pat Bates personifies all that is good and gracious in life, a woman who finds beauty in both the ordinary and the extraordinary: the benediction of a Murrells Inlet sunset, the exhilaration of a hard-fought tennis match, the instant transformation of new paint on an old wall, the enduring and [...]

Those who know Kaye Gorenflo Hearn will tell you that the word honorable is more than just a title before her name: it is a way of life. The Conway resident’s recent election as the second woman to sit on the South Carolina Supreme Court caps a distinguished legal career which began in 1977. A [...]

There’s a popular story that tells of a woman walking along the beach and throwing stranded starfish back into the water. When asked why she was doing this when it was impossible to save the thousands of starfish washed up on the beach, the rescuer replied that was certainly very important to the ones she [...]

Tucked away on a quiet street in Litchfield Country Club, Dottie Dixon and her husband, John, live a quiet and satisfying life. Dottie is a well-known local artist who has won numerous awards and is exhibited in several local galleries. Her work has appeared on the cover of Sasee twice in the past few years. [...]

On June 24, 2006, a tiny grey-haired lady in a bright blue cap and gown came forward to commence the dedication ceremony of the newly restored Historic Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum and Education Center. Raising her arms toward the sky, Mary Canty exclaimed, “To God be the glory. Great things He has done!” All [...]

When the Sasee staff decided to highlight CASA (Citizens Against Spouse Abuse) in our April issue, I was excited. I knew what CASA did and felt this organization was important to our community. I called JoAnne Patterson, director of the Horry/Georgetown CASA district, and learned a lot in that brief phone call. What I was [...]

Twenty miles west of Georgetown, on the outskirts of the once thriving village of Andrews, a small miracle is taking place. In an abandoned knitting mill, twenty talented and experienced sewing machine operators are working again, doing what they love to do in an uncanny reversal of fate. These workers, whose jobs were outsourced to [...]