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Swapping the Sun’s glaring footlights for a mellow gold moon. October is Mother Earth’s homebody, the calendar’s domestic goddess. She’s pumpkin and plaid, wool and red wine, pajamas by 9 and news at 11. Her perfume is fallen leaves and wood smoke with a hint of candy corn. She loves chili and cornbread, half-time shows and hometown teams, plum-brown lipstick and
Well-Seasoned Jeans. October is porch lights and reading lamps, oatmeal for breakfast and flannel for bed. But she still believes in black cats and haunted houses, magic and mischief and getting lost in a maze. Part good girl, part spice girl, our homecoming queen on a broom. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Tiffany Sims
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” L.M. Montgomery
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Features Women control 2/3 of the nation’s disposable income.
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Letter from the Editor................................................................ 8
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The UniTed SkirTS of AmericA
The United Skirts of America was founded on the blood, sweat and estrogen of our
The Serendipity Issue
foremothers, who
In 1985, I was down on my luck and backed into a tight corner. A relationship of seven
won us the freedom to
years had ended with a thud in a cliché. My big job in computer software development
choose...to break The
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had sighed to a complete stop. Worse, I had lost every shred of belief in myself both personally and professionally. I was paralyzed by self-doubt and depression. When an
Rules, to wear combat
out-of-the-blue opportunity came up to move to South Carolina with friends, I didn’t as
boots or high heels, to
much jump at it as climb aboard what seemed to be the last train to nowhere. As luck
run for office or run a Tiffany Sims TwyggMedia is a graphic design studio in Woodland Hills, California and home to designer & illustrator Tiffany Sims. Tiffany is also the in-house graphic designer for ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), designing everything from flyers for up-and-coming rock bands, to invitations for black tie awards dinners, to legislative materials defending intellectual property on Capitol Hill. TwyggMedia’s clients have included: The Songwriters Hall of Fame, Wild West Films, US Comedy and Arts Festival, Radio Music Awards, Galpin Ford, Los Angeles Country Club, Television Weekly, Landau Music Group, Premier Greeting Card Company, 321 Records, Music Force Media Group, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Big Sway Denim, Inkcentric, and many independent visionaries. twyggmedia.com
from The foUnder And nATionAl ediTor
would have it, I ended up on an island of hippies, drunks, carpenters, musicians, writers and a few people like me who had run out on or been run out of their old lives. No
marathon, to form our
more big job, no more Lifetime-drama love affair, no more money. The first few years,
own rock groups instead
I worked in a downtown inn cooking and booking and sometimes hauling coal up the
of being groupies, to
stairs. I clerked in the island liquor store with my own gun and plenty of time to read all day. I hung out on the porch of our winter rental drinking wine and watching the
shatter Glass Ceilings
island turn. At the time, it seemed like the end of all my dreams, but in hindsight I think
and Glass Slippers, to
it was a circuitous, universe-driven plot to put me in the right place to give birth to a
shoot hoops instead
new version of myself even though it took years to gestate. After I started skirt! in 1994, I eventually moved our office into a building that by chance I later discovered had been
of settling for hoop
a skirt factory in the early 1900s. It still stuns me in retrospect. That’s when I knew for
skirts. The ones who
sure that there was nothing random about my journey. Whenever my life seems to dead-
came before us made
end now, I try to remember that when the universe calls, it’s rarely a wrong number. You might be on Hold for a while, but eventually you’ll get the message.
it possible for our
Nikki
daughters to dream
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bigger, to have the chance to grow up to
from The ediTor
be President and turn
“Are there homeless people in your local coffee shop or even homeless children in your
the Oval Office into
child’s classroom? Yes. Homelessness isn’t a library problem; it’s a community problem,”
the Ovary Office. In the United Skirts of America, every day is Independence Day!
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n a late September evening of my junior year, I was walking back from my shift taking phone orders at Pizza Devil, the campus pizza delivery service, and ran into my friend Noel, a soft-spoken guy with a heap of wild brown hair and forlorn khakis. We’d crossed paths a million times before—in chemistry class, at fraternity parties, on the dance floor as each other’s occasional “safe date” during our freshman year when we each had hometown romances simmering on back burners (or front burner, in his case) at other colleges. Yet this time our paths crossed on the quad walkway at a lucky moment for me, decked out in my flour-dusted Pizza Devil t-shirt, smelling of oregano and pepperoni. In a few days, September 28th to be exact, Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks would be playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and Noel, a die-hard fanatical Neil fan, had an extra ticket. And not just any ticket: row A, center aisle, seat 2. He’d camped out for three nights to be first at the ticket window, but, poor guy, had not yet scored a date. His first two choices had turned him (and Neil) down. I just happened to be walking across the quad at the right time, and since that time was close to suppertime, my pepperoni perfume probably didn’t hurt. “You wanna go?” he asked, his head tilted shyly under the weight of all that bushy hair. “Hell yeah, I’ll go!” said I, who heretofore had only been to some cheesy beach music concerts and to hear Dolly Parton back when she was just crooning into the big time with her big hair and own TV show. “I’ll have to get someone to cover my Pizza Devil shift, but it shouldn’t be a problem.” Heck, I’d have paid the Devil himself to work my shift. I knew choice seats and real rock-n-roll when I saw it. And so that Saturday night I sat on the front row as Neil opened with “Comes a Time” and closed the last set with “Do You Wanna Dance.” I sang along to “Old Man” and “Sugar Mountain,” and when Neil in his distinct tenor warbled about “looking for a heart of gold” I wondered if by chance I’d stumbled upon mine. Turns out I had. I guess there does come a time. Fast forward a quarter of a century, and I’m still grateful to those two foolish girls who turned down my now-husband’s offer of primo concert seats. I’ve probably seen Neil Young perform another half dozen shows (from less primo seats) in the ensuing years, and thank him silently each time for the unwitting set-up, despite the fact that my husband still attempts to emulate Neil’s ragtag hair style (and this despite the fact that he’s now losing that mop-o-hair). I don’t pretend to understand how it all played out—from a concert together to a life together—and continues to play out, with children and jobs and a mortgage and a lawn to water and mow, and a complete collection of Neil Young bootlegs, albums and greatest hits, not to mention the less-than-impressive autobiography. But I do know that my answer to “do you wanna dance” is still “hell yeah.” I wanna dance and I wanna remember and I wanna hold flickering Bic lighters high into the dark night and ask for more, more. More mystery at how, by chance, it all comes together and sometimes, too, comes apart. More awe that we get to be part of this big rockin’ concert at all, that we all have a lyric or two to chime in with, off-key or on, that we get to walk out into this world with our ears ringing. As a person of faith, I used to envision a puppet-master God who had a clear game plan and an incredibly sophisticated system of miraculously untangled marionette strings that he somehow knew how to pull and pluck at the right time, and, voilà, the concert date fell into place. Now that my faith is a bit more tangled, I skew more toward the mad-scientist God, who smashes subatomic particles together at incredibly high speeds until she discovers (as she pretty much knew all along, smart girl that she is) the elusive matter that holds it all together, then lets the residual bits and pieces fall where they may. It’s up to us to sweep them up and water and mow and maybe write songs about nostalgic old men and hearts of gold. I’m not convinced that one perspective is really any less providential or less faith-based than the other. But I do know that there are, by chance, two meanings of the word “chance.” One is luck or fate or “the force that makes things happen,” and the other is opportunity or possibility. Perhaps it’s not by chance that in French, the noun that means luck or fate (le hasard) is masculine and the one that means opportunity (l’occasion) is feminine. I’ll opt for the latter because, given the opportunity, hell yeah, I wanna dance.
Stephanie Hunt is freelance writer in Charleston, SC, and longtime contributor to skirt!, among other print and web publications. Her husband plays a mean guitar and sings exactly like Neil Young. She, however, plays only four chords, which is enough for “Cinnamon Girl.” Song requests and other inquiries: stephaniehuntwrites.com.
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Too often, I take on projects out of duty, or to make money, or because I can't say no. But it's only when I pursue something for its own sake that time stands still and my mind is free to go fishing in the cosmos. That's when I remember what pure joy feels like... love at first sight, new school supplies, a bucket of peonies on a rainy day. High-five to my lucky stars.
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:
Writing an e-book Biking to the beach Starting painting classes again Making the first chili of the season Breaking out my cowboy boots Full Hunter’s Moon on Oct. 18 Beating my daughter at Word Warp robertmontgomery.org
I am jealous of:
Exploring valslist.com This American Life podcasts Political pandering & pimping All the junk I’ve bought in a lifetime. Wishing I could return it & get my money back. Five seasons of Breaking Bad Trying to learn “Volare” in Italian Trying to customize a Tumblr page A week full of meetings What’s next? What if? What am I missing?
W h a t ’s o n m y i Pa d :
W h a t ’s o n m y m i n d :
I’ve been searching for coffee like I had in Italy for years and never seem to find it. Joe in NYC comes close, but, alas, I live in Charleston. I just stumbled on an e-book called Perfect Coffee at Home, written by two former Marines who served in Afghanistan together. I love their obsession with coffee and hope I catch it!
I thought that as I got older, my “real” self would reveal itself like a tree being stripped down to bare branches. It would be authentic, undistracted by the ephemeral, unimpressed by success, beautiful in its simplicity. Imagine my surprise to find that I still get up every morning to 15-year-old me—confused about what to wear, craving sugar and love, constantly searching for more.
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