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Angela La Voie.............................................................................. 11
Graphic Designer Michael Rushbrook Cher Wheeler Meaghan Pafford Photography Molly Harrell Sara Caldwell
The Elsewhere Issue
Shacking Up
Laurie Wilson............................................................................... 13 Women make more than 80% of all purchasing decisions.
When the Heart is Not Quite a Home
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THE UNITED SKIRTS OF AMERICA
The United Skirts of America was founded on the blood, sweat
FROM THE FOUNDER AND NATIONAL EDITOR
and estrogen of our
The Elsewhere Issue
foremothers, who
The only time I went to camp, I called home in tears the first night and made my mother
won us the freedom to
come rescue me. I had initially been excited about it, but the older girls with their
choose...to break The
nail polish and boyfriends scared the daylights out of me. I didn’t want to sleep in a
Rules, to wear combat boots or high heels, to
dormitory with them or make a lanyard or be surrounded by strangers for a week. Even though they were all Methodists and unlikely to stuff my head down a toilet. I just didn’t like being...elsewhere. Growing up, I hated slumber parties, and sometimes
run for office or run a
I even got homesick visiting my beloved grandparents who lived a hundred miles away.
Daria Jabenko
marathon, to form our
It wasn’t as if I loved home, because I was fairly miserable there throughout my whole
Daria Jabenko was born in
own rock groups instead
childhood. No, it was the act of uprooting and the resulting disorientation, no matter
Moscow, Russia, in 1984. She moved to Canada years later and studied illustration and advertising—which makes for a perfect combination. She works on a wide variety of projects ranging
of being groupies, to shatter Glass Ceilings
that it was temporary. That camp experience was the emotional template for all my subsequent travels. I’m flush with excitement when I plan the trip, but as soon as I book a (non-refundable) ticket, the anxiety sets in. And it doesn’t let up until I’ve arrived at my
and Glass Slippers, to
destination and recovered from my “home sickness”—that illness that manifests itself
shoot hoops instead
in desperate, tearful longing for my bright blue front door, my familiar bed, my own
of settling for hoop
Starbucks. But despite taking a nasty fall in New York, breaking my ankle in Paris and losing my luggage in Philadelphia, I keep pushing myself into the unknown. Because I’ve
from book cover designs, packag-
skirts. The ones who
ing, advertising and magazine
came before us made
fashion illustrations. Illustration
it possible for our
gives her an ability to express
daughters to dream
her feelings and touch people’s
bigger, to have the
hearts and souls. She’s an artist
chance to grow up to
FROM THE EDITOR
be President and turn
Immediately after I graduated from high school, my parents generously gave me a year
the Oval Office into
to travel around the world to clear my head before deciding what I wanted to study
who finds beauty in the every day. She loves a warm cup of tea on a crisp autumn morning and drawing in her art journal. Since becoming a freelance illustrator eight years ago, she continues to seek new ways to express herself through her art and looks for new sources of inspiration to bring beauty to someone’s day.
the Ovary Office. In the United Skirts of
also filled my eyes with newness, fallen in love, found inspiration and faced my fear of flying. Because I know that big life is out there waiting for me...elsewhere.
Nikki
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in college. They only asked that I travel in groups and that my trips be based around “doing” and not just sightseeing. Over that year, I managed to see limbless beggars in Jakarta, teach seven year old Malaysian children who spoke nine languages and
America, every day is
perform oral surgery in Nicaragua (who let me do that, I now wonder?!) - a far cry
Independence Day!
from my beautiful childhood and growing up in the genteel South. That year was the single most formative experience in my life so far. As I read through our magazine this month, I’m reminded of the thrill of my traveling years and left with a gnawing hunger to fill up more pages of my passport. As you flip through our Elsewhere Issue, don’t let yourself listen to those reasons not to go—just do it!
She pours her heart, soul, and creative talent into her work and her audience can’t help but be inspired and moved. dariadesignca.com.
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Saida XXX: Venetian Blue, 2012. Acrylic on 60 canvases, 120 × 120”.
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xoxonikki Just before dusk on a recent walk, I cut through Hallelujah Lane in the local cemetery and noticed that every tree, bush and vine had leafed out in tender lettuce-luscious green overnight. Hopeful and eager and unjaded. Who cares that it's been happening for thousands of years? It's a story that always seems fresh and new and takes us completely by surprise. Spring again?! Hallelujah.
W h a t ’s k e e p i n g m e a w a k e a t n i g h t : Looking forward to:
Kentucky Derby Hiking in Yosemite Writing with friends in California Key West Christmas London someday Maybe Mexico Station 19 on Sullivan’s Island My own front porch I am jealous of:
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W h a t ’s o n m y i Pa d : This feature in Dwell magazine from my Flipboard app makes me wish I had a creative way to store the books that have overflowed my shelves. I try periodically to give them away...after all, who needs three editions of Leaves of Grass? Evidently, I do! I donate, but they still proliferate.
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Thinking about how women still have to fight for a chair at the grownups’ table when it comes to politics. At a recent interview for a seat on the board of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, a woman candidate was asked by Rep. Bill Sandifer about her child-care plan and if her children objected to her serving. Welcome back to 1950.
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