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Summer may be coming to an end, but don't fret. I have two fabulous cocktails (including a watermelon margarita to go with your Moon and Stars gazpacho) to help you enjoy the season's last few days

It's their first day of school and you've got the house all to yourself. Just what you've been waiting for... right?

Facing down the Great Outdoors, and getting a little back, too. Here's a look at how I fared, including a little Sunday morning surprise

Looking for a little mid-week workday inspiration? Read a former Fortune 100 VP's stirring speech from the recent Charleston Regional Business Journal 
Influential Women in Business Luncheon


Recently, I was asked to design a birthday party for a friend's son. These ideas are easy to tweak and repeat (edible centerpieces, anyone?) for a hit kids' summer bash

Tough business climate? Here are five tools you need to make it as a business owner (hint: never heard of "the third option?" It's a biggie, so keep reading...)

Rude concert goers aside, Jackson Browne's show Sunday night at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center (with Sara Watkins) was truly sublime. That is, if you were listening...

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

A Sperry Top-Sider photo shoot was recently staged here in the Lowcountry, complete with croquet and kayaking, swooped hair, Wayfarers, and lots and lots of bikini-clad beach jogging

As quickly as I found this local bakery, I lost it—closed for business, good-bye. I'm not really happy about it. Listen to me gripe

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

"Contemporary art breathes life into a historic home; it keeps things unpredictable and interesting..." A modern-art Q&A with collectors Kristin and Stan Stevens

Devin's half-year wrap-up of music deaths got us feeling a little nostalgic—for the Beasties, the Bee Gees, and diva Donna Summer (may she finally find a little of that hot, hot pasta...)

Less than halfway through the year we've lost two-dozen musical greats... Rock and roll heaven is filling up fast in 2012

It's National Bike to Work Day....but hey, so is everyday when you're a bike writer....

Bookish voyeurism on the New York City subways lets us read others' reading lives, and inspire our own. Could there be a Lowcountry equivalent?

This collection of bikes by Electra are not your grandmother's beach cruisers. But she would have hopped on... They're like art, and I want to hang them on my walls. Take a look...

Need a little motivation to get spinning around your hood? Check out this chic Scandinavian-designed bike basket by Splendid Willow Avenue

A poem offers the perfect antidote when there's too much to do on a Charleston spring weekend

Last month, my mother held a family contest. The fact that my brother never named his fishing boat was apparently a topic of some concern for her....