Let's face it - The state of New York did not crumble into Lake Ontario after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's affair.
Then again, that's New York. What about South Carolina? We weren't exactly thriving be...Read More >
Readers, I've been to some tense press conferences, namely in the U.S. Capitol. But what I attended yesterday in the S.C. Statehouse gave my Washington days a real run.
How tense was it? ...Read More >
My father called me just now from Florida wanting to know where the South Carolina governor was.
By now Gov. Mark Sanford has been located - the Appalachian Trail. But in a few short days his unexpla...Read More >
We were invited to my sister-in-law's wedding this past weekend. We weren't given much notice, so the stress of packing, finding someone to take two rather large dogs, and drive 12 hours one way...Read More >
Every Thursday afternoon, you could find Hazel and Violet Edwards, single sisters in their 50s, sitting in Dr. MacDonald’s small downtown office. Once a week, the optometrist traveled from a ...Read More >
Writing a romance novel can be hard.
Very hard.
Not actually hard like a slow, throbbing, erect dragon waiting to release its masculine fire inside you, but hard like difficult.
This is espec...Read More >
Back in college, I lived on a steady diet of frozen yogurt, falafel, and Simone de Beauvoir. She was my heroine, and her book The Second Sex was my Bible. I also read Germaine Greer and many obscure F...Read More >
By the ripe age of 21, every woman should be able to undo their own bra. As young girls fumbling our way through puberty, we are handed down an age-old technique for bra removal. This little behind...Read More >
In 1965, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and general man about town Porfirio Rubirosa married his fifth wife, French actress Odile Rodin. He was a young 56. She was a mature 19. When interviewi...Read More >
My favorite body part: My fake fingernails.
My passion: The PLAN I have for my garden – it’s far from being what I envision, but I love working in it.
The most important thing I ever...Read More >
Jeffrey often said, “If I wasn’t doing this for a living, I’d do it anyway.” And apparently he meant it. Jeffrey, the “sometimes controversial, always passionate” a...Read More >
Amy, an Environmental Educator in the Air Quality Division of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, is saving the world one air molecule at a time. She’s fantastic at coordinati...Read More >
Sixteen years have come to this: a weekend away for Mom and Dad, and no babysitter. For the first overnight occasion ever, I did not hire or otherwise impose upon a responsible adult to call the sho...Read More >
I wish someone had told me the truth about breastfeeding. Maybe they did. And I didn’t listen. Maybe I could have found out from one of the five pregnancy books I read if I hadn’t skipped over the...Read More >