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Everywhere you turn this month, nature is urging you to stir things up. Swim against the tide: Teach your child cursive writing. Clean house: Vote progressive women into office. Save a species: Plant milkweed for the sake of monarchs. Ignore outcomes:
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
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” Gerard Way
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STIR IT Founder Regional Vice President Nikki Hardin Michelle Schneider michelle.schneider@morris.com Creative Director
Caitilin McPhillips Founder caitilin.mcphillips@skirt.com
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Market Manager Creative Director Kate Cooper Metts Caitilin McPhillips kate.metts@skirt.com caitilin.mcphillips@skirt.com
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Contributing Editors Associate Publisher Jenny Dennis Maxwell Jenny jennymaxwell@mindspring.com jenny.dennis@skirt.com Gracie Shepherd Senior Editor gracie.shepherd@gmail.com Margaret Pilarski margaret.pilarski@skirt.com Sales Director
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On Being a Badass Ingrid Steffensen ................................. 74 In Every Issue Features Just Add…..........................................32 Shark Swim Leslie...................................................35 Absher......................................11 Menu
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He’s So Original Shakira and Me ...............................36 Kim O’Donnell..................................13 skirt! Style ........................................38
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In Every Issue Always .................................................40
Marni Rothschild Durlach Alice Keeney Photography
Letter from the Editor......................4 Splurge ................................................43
Sara Caldwell Fashion & Product Stylist Molly Harrell Alexandra Munzel
He’s So Original................................23 Essentials ............................................44
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Take 6 .................................................66 Typewriter..........................................26 Local Loves ........................................76
It seems like all women wear a lot of hats. Sister, boss, volunteer, mother, neighbor, friend, amateur counselor - women are extraordinarily good at taking ownership of jobs that need to be done, and that no one else wants to do. Our issue highlights women who juggle not only their many personal titles, but multiple professional roles as well. I can’t imagine being in public office, let alone doing it in addition to my About the Cover Artist “real” job, but Gloria Diggs does that and Mary Richardson lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has always loved is mother to two and grandmother to art—sketching, drawing, painting. one.These women have a resilience and Mary’s work is reminiscent of energy that I hope to emulate, no matEurope, travel and the beach, and ter what hats I wear over the course her inspirations include vintage fashion, old Hollywood moves of my life. Gracie Shepherd gracie.shepherd@gmail.com
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and places she has visited. Find her paintings, prints and cards on Etsy. helloitsmary.etsy.com
Meet.....................................................24 Hello March .................................... 79 XOXO The SmileNikki.....................................34 List ...................................83 Meet ....................................................84 XOXO Nikki ....................................86
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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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Embrace the Sweet Change! Ditch the regular milk and drink up the almond milk. The liquid has been on the milk substitute list since the Middle Ages and is commonly accepted as part of the paleo diet. It’s dairy-free and full of vitamin E to slow signs of aging and flavonoids to decrease the risk of degenerative diseases. What you’ll gain? A pump of potassium. Creamier coffee. Seriously. Stir it in. Admiration. You’re SO alternative now. What you’ll leave behind. The cow. Cholesterol and saturated fats. Boredom. (Brands like Silk boast dark chocolate & vanilla flavors!) What you’ll wish you had: That recipe for Gwyneth Paltrow’s cinnamon shake.
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"When I let go of what I am, I become " what I might be. Lao Tzu
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Founder of skirt! Magazine
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
“The dry seasons in life
way. We despair of reaching the end of a long winter of the soul when suddenly we feel a tiny inner shift, an
do not last. The
unfurling in some part of
spring rains will
we’ve been growing toward
this month I am loving~
our life. Without realizing it, the light all along.
come again.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
FRESH AIR, FRESH BLOOMS , FRESH PINEAPPLE AND
April days
Sipping Gin & (Jack Rudy) Tonic.
will find me:
fresh music from London Grammar. Especially the single “Strong” and its surprising video.
Adding
Penzeys spices to my food.
Not Going to Bed Before Letting go of things undone, unsolved or unnecessary and adding Goe oil to my evening routine.
Taking a Class In Painting/drawing faces online. At my own pace, just for fun.
Working On My alphabetical autobiography.
Never develop immunity to spring fever.
Wearing Silver Birkenstocks.
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My friend said, “What shall I bring you from London?” I said Henry VIII’s ghost from Hampton Court, a cup of pomegranate seeds from a sidewalk market, William Blake’s visions, homemade sloe gin, the elegant geometry of the Tube, the murals of the first Frost Fair, snow in Hyde Park, haloumi cheese from the Greek place, the top of the bus, a glass of red wine on a winter afternoon at Tate Modern, black spires against a red sunset, that Cornish pasty I lost at Borough Market, the life I never got to live in London. 34 april
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