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Spend a day watching clouds instead of working the Cloud. Try a new selfie: Write an alphabetical autobiography in 26 days—the A to Z of you. Be an April fool: Sign up for online dating. Rage against the machine: Risk arrest for a cause you believe in. Bust a rut: Walk 30 minutes every day for 30 days. Challenge the neighborhood norm: Paint your front door a shocking color. Change the paradigm: Think “It’s exciting!” instead of “It’s scary.” Choose enthusiasm: Tell your adult ego to get out of your way. After all, it’s the first spring of the rest of your life. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Mary Richardson
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Single in the City? Michelle is an attractive, 40-something professional woman. Recently divorced, she’s decided it’s time to meet new people. Excited for a night on the town, early Saturday night Michelle calls up a few of her girlfriends to make plans. The first call is Jill, married with two kids. “Sorry, Michelle,” she says, “I am just so exhausted from work this week! Thanks, but I’m settling in for a quiet night with the husband.” Undeterred, Michelle makes a second call to her old college friend, Anna. Anna says she would go out but these days she is caring for her elderly mother and cannot afford the expense of an adult sitter. Okay, Michelle thinks, one more try--Sarah! Sarah is sure to be up for it because she is also divorced and her children are teenagers. But once again, “I’d love to, but both girls are home tonight and I haven’t spent much time with them.”
It occurs to Michelle just how much things have changed in the dating scene. Her friends have moved on and going out just isn’t the same as it was in her 20s. She pours herself a glass of wine and wonders how she’ll ever meet someone.
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april 24 | A Very Special Event and Reception | 6:30pm Join us again as we explore this topic first initiated by Pat Mitchell at the Dock Street Theatre.
Mark Nepo – The Book of Awakening, Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have May 16 | Friday Night Lecture, 6:30-8:30pm May 16–18 | Full Retreat Based on Mark’s New York Times #1 bestseller The Book of Awakening, featured on Oprah and Super Soul Sunday.
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FROM THE EDITOR Spring—the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it season that signals our first chance to permanently put away those mittens (cheerio, polar vortexes) and if we’re being honest, the last chance to let our hair down (hello there, humidity in May). Make a date with a kayak, teleconference from the patio, crack open the Vinho Verde at three in the afternoon. Spring is a sweet minx of temptation—give life a stir and subAbout the Cover Artist mit. Put flowers in your hair and fuchsia Mary Richardson lives in Melbourne, on your lips, kick up your heels and kiss Australia, and has always loved art—sketching, drawing, painting. the sky. Take on that passion project, Mary’s work is reminiscent of ditch the drudgery. We chose our April Europe, travel and the beach, and profiles because they’ve mastered lefther inspirations include vintage brain and right-brain, turned dabble fashion, old Hollywood moves and places she has visited. Find her into daunting. Both have a head in one paintings, prints and cards on Etsy. world and a hand in another: At sunrise helloitsmary.etsy.com Lily starts work on a wine app; by midday she’s elbows deep in twisty branches and earthy florals at Mixson. On the other hand, McKenzie, badass chanteuse, came to roost in Charleston and decided to open a brick-and-mortar outlet for rising artists of all kinds. Take a cue from these two and look around the world and let it stir you. Margaret margaret.pilarski@skirt.com
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Revving up your life: A Recipe Ingredients: 1-2 wild dreams 1 wish or 2, depending on taste 1 tablespoon of fresh courage 1-3 dollops of wholesome curiosity 1 zest for life a dash of fear, to taste a giant swizzle straw fresh pair of Blue Jeans Instructions: Set everything you’ve ever wanted to do out on the table. Slowly and carefully add the above ingredients, one at a time. Or if you prefer, toss them all in at once, with abandon. Shake, stir, and mix for a while. Now, take one huge leap and don’t look down. A net will appear wherever you land and you’ll be holding one serving of the life you dreamed of in your hands.
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“Your lips are blue.”
SHARK SWIM Leslie Absher
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he boat house is old and funky. In the locker slows around my breasts. I curse the male designer of my suit. “Why is this thing room—white tiles faded to gray, benches with pulling so hard at my arms?” I ask my cohorts. peeling paint—we change into bathing suits. Anna looks over, drops onto the bench and starts laughing uncontrollably. We’re as giggly as schoolgirls because this is “It’s on backwards!” Chris looks over. “Shit,” I say. I want to be a good sport our first swim in the bay. And because we’re and so I laugh but I feel foolish. Once again, I struggle again to dress myself not doing any of our usual Tuesday morning properly. stuff: I’m not sitting at my writing desk or When we wade into the water, the suit buoys me up to the surface. answering student emails. Chris isn’t brushWe head out toward the far buoy and I move along but feel like I’m floating, not ing up her résumé as she heads back into the really swimming. I need the feel of water on my skin to feel, well, me. I reach job mararound, tug at the zipper string and unzip ket and myself from the suit I have put myself in A n n a three times today. It slips off my shoulders isn’t driving her sons to school. We’re all in like a second skin. The arctic water rushes unchartered waters. Literally. over me. I tie the suit arms around my midWe’re training for an open water swim dle and start swimming. It drags behind me from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco. I call like a plastic blow-up doll. “I’m dying to warm it the “shark swim.” None of us have done The water is so cold my heart leaps inup and turn the shower anything like this before. I worry about side my chest. I hyperventilate as I start to all the way to hot. On sharks that might wander into the bay, try and catch up to Anna and Chris, which the wall, a sign warns Anna worries about the cold. Chris doesn’t heightens the feeling of danger. No lifethat warming fast is worry about anything. guard here. dangerous. I don’t We walk out onto the old wooden dock After twenty minutes, I’m numb but care. I’m still freezing.” and see three elderly swimmers in the water, feeling fine. I love moving through the frigno wetsuits, doing laps around the ring that id water, swimming outside the lines of my makes up the aquatic park. Just beyond the ordered daily life. I could actually die from barrier is the Golden Gate Bridge. The thrill the cold. Still, I feel more alive than I have of what I’m about to do pricks my skin. in years. We pass the buoy and start back. I walk over to the water and get my “Hey!” Anna yells over at Chris who ankles wet. Cold. Too cold. Anna clambers has veered off course and is swimming tosuccessfully into her wetsuit. She looks lithe except I don’t think she can bend ward the opening of the swim park, and in my mind, closer to errant sharks. her elbows. Chris was smart. She researched ahead of time and found a wetsuit Chris can’t hear her at all. designed for women. I move back to the bench and start to put mine on. A girdle “Chris!” we both yell. Finally, she hears. Her head bobs up, thick goggles. would be easier to get into, I think, as I stuff my flesh into the tight rubbery Anna, who has been our parent the whole day, yells, “You’re going the wrong casing. I push the rubber over my wet calves and swear never to do this again in way!” Chris nods and starts heading our way. this order. It’s impossible to get into a wetsuit when you’re already wet. We finish the swim and head to the locker room. Suddenly, I’m cold. Colder than Finally, I’m in. Sort of. I go to zip up, search for the zipper fob and realize it’s I’ve ever been. I’m dying to warm up and turn the shower all the way to hot. On the not on the outside where it should be. wall, a sign warns that warming fast is dangerous. I don’t care. I’m still freezing. “Oh my god!” Anna cackles. “You put it on inside out!” “Your lips are blue,” Anna says when we move to the sauna, which to me feels I feel ridiculous. Here we are, 40-something women with full lives trying to broken, not warm at all. I try to control my teeth chattering. get out of our daily skin, so to speak, and I am having difficulty with the equipA woman in the sauna says it is working just fine—102 degrees. “You’ve been ment. Anna is right. The whole thing is inside out. It’s just like me to not want to in the bay. You’re just cold.” She tells us she’s done the open water swim a few follow the rules, do what I’m supposed to do—like wear a wetsuit in the freezing times. Anna looks in awe at her. She is our role model, this fit woman who must ocean. I want to feel the water on my skin. Be in the wild. be in her late 50s and who has swum with sharks more than once. I’m still inI get out of the damn thing and look out at the gray-green bay water. 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When she’s not struggling to get into her wetsuit or teaching high school students, she is putting the final edits on her memoir about growing up with a CIA dad. You can find her at leslieabsher.com.
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The annual Greek Fest extravaganza features music, food, dancing, shopping, church tours and more. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 30 Race St., Charleston.
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Since when did Latin dancing lay claim to a sorry rendition of the Cherokee Rain Dance?
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very Saturday, my husband and I make it a point “Now bend forward at the waist, now a nice arched back. Bend, arch, to work out together at the local health club. turn around!” After the instructor added the “whoop!” that every exercise My standard routine is to jog at the speed just class seemed to own, I was pretty sure my form of bending, stepping, and short of cardiac arrest while I try to keep ahead whooping was responsible for the storm clouds gathering outside. Since of my next hot flash. It’s a brave show until when did Latin dancing lay claim to a sorry rendition of the Cherokee Rain someone hops on the treadmill next to me, sets Dance? a faster pace, and settles into a walking stride “Now let’s add knees!” while reading a book. At which point I typi“Knees?” I wondered out loud, focusing on the instructor’s demonstracally toss a towel over my equipment’s flashing tion. The woman framed in the mirror at the front of the room looked like heart rate a lovely willow swaying and swinging and preto the rising Latin rhythm. Lifting my tend not to knees up and down I could have been notice the bodybuilder beside me. trying out for my alma mater’s marching But when the club started a series of Latband and it was obvious I wasn’t makin dance sessions I decided to let loose and ing the cut. shake things up. I am Shakira suddenly beIt was then that my selective memory “Step, step, turn, step, came my mantra. So as my husband headed kicked in with a flashback to the eighties step. The music had to the weight room, I boldly stepped onto when I had talked my husband into taka clear, pulsing beat, the dance floor. ing a Disco dance lesson. I couldn’t stay and although I was I had dressed comfortably in my running in step with the music then either. As I reanywhere between a shoes, T-shirt and old shorts, but I noticed the call, my Box Step had looked a lot like my step and a turn beinstructor had on cute little black and white Hustle. hind the instructor, I dance shoes that laced up her legs—very cool I was glad there weren’t any guys in was enjoying myself.” and very intimidating. Form-fitting black spanthe current class to see my Latin interpredex covered her size-zero body. My confidence tation. One deep breath and I refocused was slipping. Perhaps having watched an old my attention on the instructor’s com“Macarena” video on YouTube wouldn’t be mands that were blaring from the speaker sufficient preparation, after all. just a few feet away. “Breathe, breathe, Except for the door and a viewing winbreathe!” the contortionist shouted. I dow, the room was surrounded by reflecting mirrors, leaving little opportunity needed more medical attention than three puffs of oxygen. All the jarring movefor the insecure to hide. Under the glare of the overhead floodlights, I quickly ment had caused my uterus to drop into my underpants and the step, turns, up, migrated to an open corner in the back of the room. downs, back, forth, quick, slows had completely tied my stomach into a knot. Pretty soon a crowded session provided better cover for the now nervous All I could think of was when the CD would end. I backed up a little further into me and the class was ready to begin. Step, step, turn, step, step. The music had the corner and did my best to slink into the grout of the cinderblock. a clear, pulsing beat, and although I was anywhere between a step and a turn “Please don’t ask about the lesson,” I requested of my husband as we headed behind the instructor, I was enjoying myself. “Now let’s add hips!” the teacher home. He looked at me and simply replied, “When I glanced in the window you called out. “Everyone do a figure eight with your hips.” The instructor could looked like everyone else.” figure eight her hips tight enough to have made Peggy Fleming’s skates jealous. Well, how about that. I had been so focused on the detoxed dance instructor I pictured my sway more like that of an ocean liner. that I hadn’t noticed anyone else in the class. “Let’s add arms; up, down, now quick, quick, slow!” I looked in the mirror “You said just what I needed to hear,” I reveled before asking, “Do you know in horror. My interpretation of a sexy Shakira slithering about looked more like how sexy that makes you?” an arthritic Jack LaLanne impersonator performing jumping jacks. Also, someHe kissed my sweaty lips and smiled. My husband might not have known where between hips and arms I had stopped moving my feet. The ocean liner how he so perfectly hit the mark, but he knew enough not to dance around had hit an iceberg and was sinking fast. the question. Kim O’Donnell is an engineering graduate who began her journey after college working in manufacturing. She now enjoys writing to help blow off hot-flash steam. She and her husband live in New Albany, Ohio.
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Where I find the magic:
As a stranger to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, I was completely unprepared
There always comes a
for the beauty of
spring day when barely-
The Wind Rises. The
there green appears with-
haunting images and story
out warning on yesterday’s
are still running through
bare trees. Maybe we un-
my mind weeks after.
dergo change in the same
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April days
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Adding
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Not Going to Bed Before Letting go of things undone, unsolved or unnecessary and adding Goe oil to my evening routine.
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Working On My alphabetical autobiography.
Never develop immunity to spring fever.
Wearing Silver Birkenstocks.
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The April 2014 Stir It Up Issue
The April 2014 Stir It Up Issue - featuring local Charleston, SC women, events, products, and loyal advertisers
The April 2014 Stir It Up Issue
Published on Mar 25, 2014
The April 2014 Stir It Up Issue - featuring local Charleston, SC women, events, products, and loyal advertisers