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Cover Artist: Alexandra Brehm

Alexandra Brehm (born Burgstaller) in 1974 in Salzburg, Germany, scribbled at a very early age on any paintable surface. At the age of 16, she painted a picture for the first time of her art teacher! It was the beginning…

Ikigai & Me & My Writing Career

Don’t begin your writing career by trying to rival John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath or worse, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Okinawans lead long lives. Here in the USA, we’ve been told that longevity is related to eating healthy, exercising…

The Race of Ages

Her face contorted with noiseless laughter, so deep I worried a lack of oxygen might damage her brain. The line in the dirt had been drawn. On one side stood my husband, the official of the race, assisted by our…

Karen Sinkway: Making a Lasting Impact

Every day, hundreds of people in our community, mostly without recognition, get out and do the work it takes to keep hundreds of non-profits and churches functioning and able to fulfill their missions. Murrells Inlet resident, Karen Sinkway, is one…

Savor the Little Things

Then the path turned and led us straight up a hill covered in wildflowers – mountain heather, Indian paintbrush, rosy spirea, yellow broadleaf arnica, bluebells, and more. Sometimes, when a big thing is missing, little things have their chance to…

Margi Fleming: Helping Make Dreams Come True

As Vice President of Marketing and Human Resources for The Citizens Bank, Margi Fleming is passionate about helping people prepare for living their best life. Margi, tell me a little about yourself. I am originally from Abbeville, South Carolina, and…

Humbled

Heck, I usually see my favorite hairdresser JP every three weeks, so I had no idea how bad the gray actually was. This era of the COVID19 virus has been very frightening but also very humbling – incredibly humbling. It’s…

Read It: August 2020

Happy July! It is officially summer, so as you pack your sunscreen for a day at the beach, make sure to also pack these books in your beach bag. This month has some incredible new releases.

The Good, The Bad, and The Oldie

Running from one department store to another, I tried on dozens of hip outfits, and each one made me feel like I was modeling a Halloween costume. I was talking to my brother on the phone the other day. “How…

green plant on brown pot beside white sofa

An Old Couch, Two Chairs, and COVID

Over the years, I vacuumed and spot-cleaned that couch, washed the pillows repeatedly, and finally had it recovered. In our first year of marriage, thirty-five years ago, my husband and I acquired a sectional couch with a subtle beige and…

Cover Artist: Rogério Pedro

Rogério Pedro is a Brazilian visual artist from the city of Campinas – São Paulo, Brazil. His work has a very unique style with modernist and colorful influences applied to canvas, mural painting, scenography, books, fashion and advertising. His work…

Footloose and Boomless

I wanted to be able to drive through town, launch my own craft, and dance with the wind once again. I couldn’t dismiss the thought that the little sailboat looked remarkably like a battered mixing bowl. Wide and round-bottomed, it…

Meet Erin Marshall and Nicole Queen

Helping our Community’s Children: The South Carolina Guardian ad Litem Program Erin Marshall Program Coordinator II, South Carolina Department of Children’s Advocacy Can you tell us about the Guardian ad Litem program? The Guardian ad Litem program is a division…

Gone Fishing

That was his mistake because by the end of the day I had caught fourteen bream and two decent sized catfish, and he did not catch anymore. After seven crazy weeks in the house avoiding personal contact with the outside…

I’m Not Okay

Knowing that my friends are going through the same things means I always have someone to talk with about it, someone who knows exactly how I’m feeling. On a Tuesday evening last September, I was at my 10-year-old son’s Boy…