Parents

Looking for a little mid-week workday inspiration? Read a former Fortune 100 VP's stirring speech from the recent Charleston Regional Business Journal 
Influential Women in Business Luncheon


A family reunion, summer camp-style—complete with basketball, climbing walls, fishing derbies, and fireworks—serves as a good reminder of how to live year-round

Here's some food for thought just in time for your weekend: In our Blog of the Week, Dr. Abess makes anxiety out to be a friendly motivator rather than a big fat burden to lug around on your shoulders

Without anxiety, we might be pretty useless people. This, and the recent bus bullying video gone viral, begs the question: are we instilling ENOUGH of these jitters in our children?

My granddaughters' fast-food, fast-pace habits face down a little home cooking and slow drives through the country

Here they are: the brazenly bad behaviors, the flagrant fouls, the egregious offenses that will earn guys and gals alike “undateable” status among our surveyed singles

Last week, we heard all about local gals’ dating pet peeves. Here is the gentlemen’s side of the story....

Devin's half-year wrap-up of music deaths got us feeling a little nostalgic—for the Beasties, the Bee Gees, and diva Donna Summer (may she finally find a little of that hot, hot pasta...)

Less than halfway through the year we've lost two-dozen musical greats... Rock and roll heaven is filling up fast in 2012

Following a chat at CFW a few months back, the young fashion phenom shares her beauty must-haves and fast fixes with me....

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but there are some very, very angry people on the Web. The angriest people are, of course, the Occupy types...

How I fell in love with live music. (Hint: It's all Joan's fault)

Reflections on a recent visit from my parents, Hen and Herb. Delicious turnip and onion soup included

"Today is one of the saddest days in my 20 plus years of being in the Dorchester County Coroner's Office... one of the worst deaths I have ever handled." —Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet

Live life outside of yourself and the demands life makes upon you. See a bigger picture, particularly when it comes to the one we show to our children...

More than ready for some wise solutions to the nation's long list of woes, I enlisted the help of my four-year-old nephews to help solve the problems. Turns out, not a bad strategy...

In honor of National Library Week, and of our local Superheros—the fabulous, under-celebrated, always-resourceful librarians—our first "Meet your Librarian" profile, starring Jennifer Hawes

I remember it like it happened yesterday. It was my junior year of college and my dad came into town for a football game. In true Alabama fashion, we rallied to create one of the best tailgates....

Book Review: Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter, by Phoebe Damrosch

A chat with one of Charleston's blooming artistic talents, plus a peek at her work