Third Act
As the curtain rises on the third act of life, I’m always searching for ways to be. Retirement has...
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OPINION
Confessions of an Amazon Exile
Lately, you hear a lot of complaints about censorship. It’s a big, newsy topic. Conservatives...
Read MoreTrial and Error
Last Thursday I messaged my sister in Charleston, saying, “The Murdaugh trial is ruining my Film...
Read MoreMy Traditional Movie Column
Jeff and I were chatting at Agave Thursday night, having just left the Chamber’s Business After...
Read MoreMy Spreadsheet Dog
We moved to the South Carolina Lowcountry because of two dogs: Hank the Handful, a wild...
Read MoreCringing in Advance
I read a funny, provocative column in the NY Times last week called “Future Cringe.” It posed the...
Read MoreYou Don’t Say
Did you hear about Stanford University’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative? Apparently,...
Read MoreLife’s Mixtures
Some of you may know I moved to Brevard, North Carolina a little over two years ago. I’d rank my...
Read MoreSavoring the New Year
Again, it’s time to select a word as my guiding light for the new year. I want my word choice for...
Read MoreTales of Technology
In Alabama over Christmas, I was driving to the childhood home of a dear old friend – a house I’d...
Read MoreScrooge, The Grinch, and Me
Editor’s Note: I first published this column in 2011. I still mean every word. – Margaret ...
Read More“No Hoisties, No Cleansies!”
The playground at the Hagerstown, Indiana, elementary school, in the early 1950s, had a touch of...
Read MoreEvery Voice Matters
By Cassandra King Recently the Pat Conroy Literary Center presented a program aimed at addressing...
Read MoreRead Local
Yesterday morning I was reading an essay in the NY Times online called “The Questions to Ask...
Read MoreThis One’s for the Girls
I was on the phone with my friend Marly Rusoff the other day, debriefing after this year’s Pat...
Read MoreOn Losing and Finding Hope
The Saturday morning before Halloween, I opened the New York Times online, scanned a few...
Read MoreGoodbye to All That
After 25 years, the Charles Street Gallery closes its doors. For the first few years after our...
Read MoreThe Main Gift of Literature
What do Mumbai, India and Savannah, Georgia have in common? Both are settings of exceptional new...
Read MoreOff Script
My husband emailed me something from The Atlantic the other day, accompanied by the comment,...
Read MoreNo Fairy Tale
My daughter called out of the blue from Clemson Thursday and asked, “Mom, did you hear about the...
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