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When posting a blog on Grit, I'm prompted to choose a category that best suits the post. My frequent label, "Mixed Messages," has helped me define myself as an artist

I beg to differ. That, and three other big reasons why I never made it to the Olympics Games

Instead of Grace Kelly or Anthropologie-style bohemia, I'm tooling around on my new red bike looking decidedly less Hollywood

Local artist Justin Walling's new line of antiqued mirrored tiles for Ann Sacks are awesome. After working with him on other projects, it is really fun to watch him rise to a national level

A family reunion, summer camp-style—complete with basketball, climbing walls, fishing derbies, and fireworks—serves as a good reminder of how to live year-round

Meet a local style star who loves Mozart, winter fashion, Red Wing boots, and is up for a documentary about anything—even water irrigation in Southeat Asia

My granddaughters' fast-food, fast-pace habits face down a little home cooking and slow drives through the country

Here they are: the brazenly bad behaviors, the flagrant fouls, the egregious offenses that will earn guys and gals alike “undateable” status among our surveyed singles

Think secondhand is (sigh) old news? Think again, then check out the sleek and shapely Eames rocking chair I found in Mt. P

Ate lots of paint chips as a kid? This is the blog post for you.

I asked more than 50 unmarried locals to dish on their biggest romantic turn-offs. Gentlemen, here’s what the girls had to say.

Bees that send me to cursing at church cookouts, horror stories starring our pet hamsters, and those darn green lizards—my unfortunate run-ins with the animal kingdom

That's what Coastal Living magazine claims, but if you ask me, something's a little fishy. Kiawah's a lot of things, but Barefoot, Slap-Happy SeasideTown USA?

Mindless mantras beat out fridge magnet philosophies when life doesn't make sense...

Mini-muffins and milk glass, sweet tea and fabric flowers, Starbucks and one BIG, BIG baby!

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but there are some very, very angry people on the Web. The angriest people are, of course, the Occupy types...

Reflections on a recent visit from my parents, Hen and Herb. Delicious turnip and onion soup included

Head over to the South Carolina Aquarium Monday evening for a trifecta: see the new lemur exhibit, support sea turtle rehab and treat yourself to Mary Alice Monroe's new book, Beach House Memories

Post Hunger Games, I'm coming clean—reading it was not only a wildly entertaining step into the genre, but prompted my very own fiction renaissance, just in time for prime beach reading season

Tired of looking, well... TIRED? On-air personality and new mom Nicole Johnson of WCSC-TV shares secrets for post-baby beauty, like brightening sleep-deprived skin