By Katherine Waters Valentine’s Day brings out a variety of emotions. Many people love the romance, chocolates and flowers, while others dread it no matter their relationship status. Whether you love Valentine’s Day or hate it, you can make the holiday more fun by planning a Galentine’s Day celebration this year. Galentine’s Day, a holiday […]

By Lindsay C. Bishop Valentine’s Day is synonymous with sweets. From heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates for your love to tiny hearts with sweet sayings for classmates, the holiday isn’t complete without savoring a yummy treat or two. This year, instead of heading to the grocery store to purchase a generic box of chocolates filled […]

By Lindsay C. Bishop Maybe you don’t feel comfortable going out to a restaurant yet. Maybe you don’t want to splurge on a night out. Or maybe Valentine’s Day just isn’t your thing. Regardless of your reason for staying in, a Valentine’s Day celebration at home can be just as romantic, fun and delicious as […]

Self-care. It’s a phrase we hear often and one that we believe we understand. A quick internet research will reveal a wealth of suggestions about tips and activities for self-care with a range of options as long as the varying definitions of self-care. Simply put, self-care includes any measure a person employs to preserve or […]

By Tonya McGue Juli Kaplan and her husband David moved to Awendaw in 2018. Their two children had started college, and the couple was eager to leave the cold Indiana winters. Surprisingly, they had never been to the Lowcountry when they chose to move here. They picked their new home by looking at a map […]

Have you ever sat down to plan your holiday menu and thought, “all that is missing is the heat of competition?” No? Maybe it was the social distancing talking, but this year, we invited a healthy dose of rivalry into our kitchens with a virtual bake-off, and it turned an ordinary(ish) holiday dish into the […]

By Jeanne Taylor On any given day, you can find an entire team of dedicated women behind the lifesaving efforts of the sea turtle hospital at the South Carolina Aquarium. Run by a six-person team of biologists and veterinarians, five of whom are women, the Sea Turtle Care Center is funded through private donations and […]

By Janet E. Perrigo In the year 1907, the popular song at the conclusion of summertime was “School days, school days, dear old golden rule days.” Who could imagine that the coming decade would bring a deadly world-wide pandemic? The Spanish influenza virus attacked first in spring of 1918 and then rebounded fiercely in October. […]

By Anne Semmes How many of us have landed a stockpile of family photos and documents from grandmother’s trunk, and we simply tucked them away into boxes to deal with another day? Add to those the thousands of pictures on our phones of kids, friends and travels, and it can seem overwhelming. Who has the […]

By Lindsay C. Bishop Throughout history, South Carolina has been home to many strong, intelligent and downright incredible women. When you think about the trailblazers who have called our state home, names like Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Septima Pointsette Clark and Nikki Haley may come to mind. But they are only the tip of the iceberg […]