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Stop putting the brakes on your life. That yellow caution light? Disable it for a while. Go full speed ahead on a project that seems pointless. Yes, you can learn to read music just for fun. Yes, you can write the book you think no one will buy. Yes, you can stop stalling and look for a new job.
Worry less about crashing and more about being stuck in cruise control. Recant “can’t.” What if you never step out of line? Never gamble your peace of mind? Never trouble the world? Life will just climb through the window if you try to lock the door on it. It wants your Yes, your Now, your Full Monty. Out there, you’ll find danger and dragons, detours and disappointments, but it’s also full of magic and miracles, joy and juice. Go get some. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Skopein
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” J.K. Rowling
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Founder Regional Vice President Nikki Hardin Michelle Schneider michelle.schneider@morris.com Creative Director
Caitilin McPhillips Founder caitilin.mcphillips@skirt.com
Features
Nikki Hardin
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
Shark Swim Leslie Absher ....................................... 32 Shakira and Me Kim O’Donnell ................................... 58
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In Every Issue Just Add…..........................................34 Features Menu ...................................................37 Lady in Red M. Terry Bowman..............................11 He’s So Original ...............................41
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Alone in the Desert Always.................................................42 Susan Harian......................................13
mary.vann@morris.com Contributing Writer Katie Toussaint Circulation
Spring Fever.......................................45 In Every Issue
Jessica Seigler Photography jessica.seigler@morris.com Marni Rothschild Durlach Alice Keeney Photography
LetterStyle from........................................50 the Editor......................4 skirt!
Sara Caldwell Fashion & Product Stylist Molly Harrell Alexandra Munzel
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FROM THE EDITOR
Meet. ....................................................24 The Smile List ...................................71
adventure. From that, 1,058 candidates were selected. I know one of them. Maybe you do, too. Jan Millsapps, a writer and filmmaker, was my professor at the University of
XOXO Nikki.....................................34 Meet ....................................................72
South Carolina when I was in grad school.Yes, she’s one of those hoping to relocate to the fourth planet from the sun.As I follow her Facebook updates, I wonder if she will. First, she’d have to be selected for the next round, which involves some sort of simulated life-on-Mars reality TV-ish experience. Then, she’d have to leave loved ones for a trip from which adventures, and I guess there’s only one person who has to think they make sense. Otherwise, we might not have had Amelia Earhart, Nellie Bly or Sally Ride.This month, you can read in our pages about Earth-bound adventures, maybe even dream up one of your own.And if you’re curious about Jan’s next chapter, keep tabs on her through Twitter @JanOnMars. Jenny jennymaxwell@mindspring.com
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About the Cover Artist
Skopein is the artistic nom de plume of Luiz, a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. Luiz studied graphic design and illustration and has worked in editorial and advertising. cargocollective.com/ kot-illustration/skopein
XOXO Nikki ....................................75
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Usually an adventure is an undertaking that is bold. Risky. Exciting. May is the month to do something you can’t believe you did.
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"Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." Ibn Battuta
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xoxonikki Founder of skirt! Magazine
Where I find the magic:
Uppercase is a quarterly magazine aimed at “the creative and curious”
I want to know how the
and filled with eye candy.
sun looks like rising over
There’s never an issue
an African plain. How the
without something to
rain sounds on an English
inspire me or make me sigh
moor. How the thyme-
or make me want to try.
and sun-scented hills of
“We are homesick most for the places we have never
I only wish it were
Greece smell on a summer
published more often.
afternoon. Home is never enough for me, and yet home is a haven I hate to leave. Maybe I’ll never take
this month I am loving~
the Trans-Siberian Railway, but my imagination has a ticket to ride.
known.” Carson McCullers
May days
Treating Myself To Citrusy pamplemousse skin cream
BIKING TO STARBUCKS, FOLDABLE WELLIES, COLD PINK ZIN
will find me:
...And the hot new single “Seasons” by Future Islands.
Trying
My new French press
Painting One bedroom wall dirty pink.
Wearing “Kickass Kentuckian” tee on May 3rd Turning Up the Heat With Bacchanal Pepper Sauce
Worship each moon as if it's the first you've seen.
Anticipating Lucinda Williams at Spoleto
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My boots are constantly itching to find the perfect place to live. Like Goldilocks, I’m always looking for “just right.” A place I’d recognize instantly, where I’d feel at home in my body, at peace in my soul, at one with the landscape. It’s not that I think my life would be better elsewhere, but that I’d finally belong somewhere. But this yearning seems to me innately human. Aren’t we always scanning the horizon, straining to catch a glimpse of heaven? When it’s probably the ground under our feet and the people we carry in our hearts, no matter where we are. Follow Nikki’s blog at fridaville.com. 34 may
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