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n o v e m b e rAugusta, Aiken & Columbia
Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Ali Douglass
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” Samuel Pepys
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November is the month we crave
community and culinary togetherness.
We buy a too-big turkey just to have
sandwiches and leftover gravy the day
after Thanksgiving. We cut out recipes
for dinner from scratch, but deep-down
we yearn for jellied cranberry sauce and
pumpkin filling from a can. We hunger
for a seat at a dining-room table filled
with Extended Family,
Cornbread Dressing
eccentric friends and occasional
strangers. We cross our fingers that this
will be the year everyone behaves and no
one leaves the table in tears. We binge
on blessings and green-bean casserole,
and cornucopias, feasts and football.
And when it’s done, we’ll fold up the
crepe-paper turkeys and blow out
the Pilgrim candles and swear on the
wishbone that next year we’ll eat
out. Until it’s time to do it again.
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about skirt!Publisher
Nikki Hardin [email protected]
National Art Director Caitilin McPhillips
National EditorMargaret Pilarski
Market Manager
(Augusta/Aiken/Columbia)
Kate Cooper Metts
Contributing Editor Columbia
Jenny Maxwell
Editor Augusta/Aiken
Gracie Shepherd [email protected]
Sales ExecutiveColumbia/Aiken
Libby Salvador [email protected]
Sales ExecutiveAugusta/North Augusta
Doressa Hawes doressa.hawes@
augustamagazine.com
Graphic Designer
Cher WheelerMeaghan Pafford
PhotographyMolly HarrellSara Caldwell
Essays
Um. Yum.
Stacy Appel ................................................................................... 13
Paper Weight
Kim Todd ........................................................................................ 14
Jump Start
Stephanie Hunt .......................................................................... 22
Summer Love
Lisa Evans ...................................................................................... 36
The Bowls
Laura Templeton ....................................................................... 32
Features
Letter from the Publisher ......................................................... 6
Letter from the Editor ............................................................... 6
Feel Good ...................................................................................... 10
Meet ................................................................................................... 31
He’s So Original .......................................................................... 26
Skirt of the Month..................................................................... 39
Planet Nikki .................................................................................... 42
Women make more than 80% of all purchasing
decisions.
Women control 2/3
of the nation’s disposable income.
Women influence 80%of all car sales.
No
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The Crave Issue
Women spend almost 2 of every 3
healthcare dollars.
Illus
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The UniTed SkirTS of AmericA
The United Skirts of
America was founded
on the blood, sweat
and estrogen of our
foremothers, who
won us the freedom
to choose...to break
The Rules, to wear
combat boots or high
heels, to run for office
or run a marathon,
to form our own
rock groups instead
of being groupies, to
shatter Glass Ceilings
and Glass Slippers, to
shoot hoops instead
of settling for hoop
skirts. The ones who
came before us made
it possible for our
daughters to dream
bigger, to have the
chance to grow up to
be President and turn
the Oval Office into
the Ovary Office. In
the United Skirts of
America, every day is
Independence Day!
Ali Douglass
Ali Douglass was born in
Muncie, Indiana, and after
enjoying life in Boston, Kansas
City, New York City, and San
Francisco, she is happy to be
living in Asheville, NC. She has
been working as an illustrator
for more than 13 years, illus-
trating magazines, newspapers,
greeting cards, advertising, and
more than 25 books.
Her work has been recognized
by American Illustration,
Step Inside Design, L.A. Society
of Illustrators, readymade.com,
sfgirlbybay.com, and
apartmenttherapy.com.
Books she has illustrated
for American Girl have
been winners of the 2008
Children’s Choice Award,
International Reading
Association and Children’s
Book Council, and winner of
the 2007 Excellence in Finan-
cial Literacy Award (EIFLE),
Institute for Financial Literacy.
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from The ediTor
Hard as it is to beat summertime standbys, this time of year is my favorite when it comes to food.
From Thanksgiving turkey to apple cider, fall treats give summer barbecue and popsicles a run for their
money. I think one reason is because the foods from this time of year more often than not come with
memories, like making pralines with my mother to deliver before the holidays or watching my grand-
mother hand mix her cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving dinner. What would a hay ride be without
hot chocolate afterwards, and isn’t the Thanksgiving spread what we’re all truly grateful for? We’re
calling this The Crave Issue, and we want to give you permission to relish the good stuff this holiday
season. Whether you’re on the paleo diet, trying to give vegan a go or are just counting calories, I think
taking a brief hiatus might be good for us all. Make all the bad things you love so much, and maybe take
the time to teach your tricks to someone new this year.
from The PUbliSher
Nikki [email protected]
For months now, my soul has been craving a change of scenery, a complete
180 from where I’ve been living, a cutting away of all the usual props I
depend on for security and safety. So in October I used my vacation time to
go on a solo journey to New York City for a few weeks, about as far as I
could travel from Charleston, SC, in psychic miles. I wasn’t even sure what
I was looking for there. It wasn’t comfort—I stayed in a run-of-the-mill
shoebox of an apartment that didn’t take long to have me bouncing off
the walls. It wasn’t glamour—nothing stylish about the clanking radiator,
the lack of water pressure in the shower and the overflowing bins in the
trash room. It wasn’t convenience—getting around meant deciphering the
subway system and walking everywhere when I couldn’t because cabbing
wasn’t in my budget. When I was going through it, I couldn’t explain to
myself or anyone else why it was so important to me to venture outside my
very predictable routine, to be uncomfortable, to prove I could do this on
my own. I only knew that the craving was there, so strong that I couldn’t
ignore it, even when I got cold feet and wanted to call off the whole trip.
It was a nudge from the inside out, pushing me where I needed to be right
then, whether I understood it or not. Whenever I regretted the financial
splurge and the urge to escape or felt lost and unanchored in the vast ocean
of Manhattan, I tried to remember the quote from Whitman that I had
copied in my journal a few weeks before: “Now, Voyager, sail thou forth,
to seek and find.” And maybe that’s a craving that has to be satisfied over
and over again, as long as we live.
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Fresh produce, seasonal plants and Christmas trees can be found in the outdoor setting of Good Earth Produce and Garden Center located in Aiken and Augusta.
Shop for fine olive oils and vinegars at The Crescent Olive on Devine Street in Columbia.
Come experience the taste of Red Bowl Asian Bistro located in Aiken & Columbia, SC
Elegant to fanciful: we can help set your table for any occasion. Visit Westend in Columbia.
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“Guess what I can do?”
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Jump Start
Stephanie Hunt is a Charleston-based freelance writer whose work appears in skirt!, Charleston Magazine, Literary Mama and other publications and blogs. Her tramping days are over, thanks to iffy knees and old-lady bladder, but once upon a time she had an impressive back layout.
I am at my desk bouncing from screen to screen, window to window, website to website to blog to inbox, getting dizzy and distracted while trying to convince myself this passes for “work,” and my daughter comes in, her face flushed and glowing from being outside, a halo of sweat beading on her upper lip.
“Guess what I can do?” she asks, breathless and ex-cited.
“A back double flip? One of those twisty seat-to-seat moves?” I venture, my foggy midlife brain unable to find the term “swivel hips.” Claire’s been jumping on her friend’s trampoline, and her double-gainer grin suggests she’s
reached heights approaching cloud nine. “No, a handstand into a backbend!” she announces, triumphantly. We
spent endless hours all summer, me as spotter, she kicking up to catch my waiting arm extended like a traffic cop, then I braced her as she flopped over, sometimes more successfully and more gracefully than others. She practiced front-overs on the beach, in my bedroom, in the front yard, in the ocean. Re-lentlessly. Religiously. She was determined; she was dying to do it. Her arms would ache from hours of trying. She mastered kicking up into a balanced handstand—a marvel in itself in my opinion—and once she came really, really close to tumbling into a backbend without my support, but poor kid, Gabby Douglas she will never be. As my patient yoga teachers can attest, there is not a flexible, gymnastics-prone muscle in my body, and I’m afraid my daughter’s orthopedic inheritance ain’t doing her any favors.
But the trampoline did. It gave Claire just the right amount of cushion and confidence to let herself freefall into a backbend. Along with my non-limber musculature, Claire also inherited my love of trampolines. As a kid, I lived to jump. I adored it. I craved the ping-ponging of my body off those coiled springs; I loved being launched into the sky, the forgiving landing, the slow-learning of, eventually, training my mind and my body into a back flip. I first fell head over heels, literally, for jumping at summer camp, back in the pre-litigious 1970s when our YMCA camp not only offered trampoline as an activity, but encouraged kids to soar, twist and flip on trampolines built into a pit framed by cement block. The camp tramps had fabulous super-duper springy springs, but if you mis-jumped, your skull or other body parts had a high probability of encountering concrete. A scene from the first season of Mad Men, when little daughter Sally Draper runs into the living room with a plastic dry cleaning bag over her head and no adult is remotely interested or concerned reminded me of the oblivious days of those camp death-traps that were my first love.
We didn’t have a trampoline at our house, but I made myself at home in my cousin’s backyard, and down the street at the Marlowes’, where their bouncy turf became my playground and training ground and my escape from the ups and downs of life at home amidst a turbulent divorce. I loved the feeling of flying, of being suspended ever so briefly in the air, then on landing the promise of ricocheting back up there again. I loved trying new tricks, fine-tuning balance with power and height, figuring out how to move and control an adolescent body that otherwise was more or less out of my control. In time I could even do a one-and-a-half front flip—not exactly Olympian gold medal material, but good enough for me.
These days when Claire asks, no—begs, for a trampoline, I’m tempted to go against my better, safer judgment and dreams of a decent landscaped yard and let her have the joy of jumping to her heart’s content. Because I know that desire. I know that joy, that compulsion almost, to soar and levitate and rebound against gravity, against all that holds you down, up into the air again. Because it’s what I still long to do. Because now, in the mire of midlife as I feel stuck and motionless in many aspects of work and life, I want nothing more than to bound upward, to jump dangerously high—and when I sink down, to know I’ll bounce back again. Maybe even turn a flip.
George Nissen, the inventor of the modern trampoline, supposedly en-joyed jumping until he died at age 96, and at his 80th birthday party the spry athlete sprung into a handstand right on the dining room table. Claire, my little handstand queen, got a kick out of that bit of trivia, although she doesn’t want to wait 70 years to follow suit.
“Mom, a front-over was so easy on the trampoline,” she says, with an unspoken please? shining clearly in her eyes.
“Claire, that’s great!” I reply, my heart feeling like a tight spring, holding en-ergy and desire in as reason prevails. I pretend I don’t see her look of longing.
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I knew I was falling for him the day I walked into the lecture hall and saw him sitting in the front row. Hunched over a book, he pulled out a black ballpoint pen and scribbled a note in the margin. His eyes, hidden behind his dark-rimmed glasses, didn’t waver even as the noise level of the room rose.
The room hushed as a tall man with broad shoulders and messy white hair entered. He introduced himself as Professor Thompson and asked the boy in the front row to stand. This was Tim, our teaching assistant—the one who would lead our tutorials and grade our papers. Of all the guys in this room, I had to lay my eyes on the one who was giving me my grade.
Throughout the semester, I enjoyed Tim’s tutorials. The subject matter, political data, could put me to sleep, but Tim made it exciting. He regurgitated Marxist quotes and dressed like a rocker, with a metal chain connecting his wallet to his pants, and he had a thin beard that framed his small, boyish face. He made nerdy look cool.
Two months later, I answered an email from Tim, requesting an office assis-tant. Although he was brilliant, organization wasn’t his strong suit. His tiny home office was cluttered with thousands of articles and newspaper clippings and he offered to pay me $50 for a few hours of work every Friday morning to organize them into binders.
Fridays were now my favorite days and I leaped out of bed earlier than my alarm clock and hopped on the long subway ride downtown. We went for lunch at the bar down the street and talked about school, then ourselves—our lives, our friends, our hobbies...and his girlfriend. I knew she existed. I’d seen her stuff around the house. It didn’t bother me. A girlfriend put some distance between what I wanted to happen and what could never happen.
That summer, Tim announced that he and his girlfriend were splitting up. She’d moved out and after a weekend of wallowing, he realized he was happy about the change. They weren’t the most compatible couple—she a Sex and the City shopaholic who barged into his office to debate whether Carrie should finally break up with Big while he immersed himself in the political teachings of Gramsci.
We met at a bar one sunny afternoon in June. The course was now over and the upbeat atmosphere of the outdoor patio filled with nearby office workers in-dulging in after-hours drinks got to me, so I indulged in some red wine. It was get-ting late, but the warm summer air whispered to me to stay out and enjoy myself, so we headed back to his house. As I sipped the last of a bottle of red wine, I felt his hands cup around my shoulders, massaging my sore back. His hands stopped moving and I felt his breath beside my ear, hot and panting. I turned my head and met his mouth. His warm lips tasted better than the full-bodied wine. He pulled me up, our lips still intertwined, and wrapped his arms around my body.
We moved from the patio, through his office and into the kitchen and then down the stairs into his bedroom. He removed my clothes slowly, yet with confidence, and made love to me as though he’d wanted to do this for as long as I had.
In the months after, we saw each other infrequently. I had a trip to Europe planned with a girlfriend and the start of the new school year made seeing each other difficult. I didn’t worry—I knew he was the type who needed his space. On one of those infrequent dates, the warm summer air now a cool breeze that made my nose cold, we went to a movie and then for drinks. He hadn’t kissed me all night, and as we sat in the dark bar lit only by candles sticking out of beer bottles, wax of different colors floating down them creating colorful and unusual shapes, he finally brought up the subject of us.
“What we shared was beautiful, but I’m not in a place right now where I can be a good boyfriend,” he said.
I was crushed, but I understood and didn’t let on how hurt I was. We prom-ised to stay in touch, to be friends and maybe in the future, we could be more.
For the next year, I dated on and off, but never seriously, always holding out hope that Tim and I could re-visit our summer romance. We met for drinks the following summer and I was sure this would be our time.
“I want to be with you,” I said. He sighed. “I’m sorry, Lis. We’ll always be friends, but it just isn’t right
for me.” He talked about the papers he was working on, his PhD, and a conference he
was speaking at in October. He’s too busy, I thought. Of course he doesn’t have time to date.
Two weeks later, I strolled into the student lounge and there he was. His thick dark-rimmed glasses fell to the tip of his nose while he stared intensely into a book. I took the table near the back of the room—facing him, studying him. Just watching him at work inspired me to study harder, to read more, to do more. Then, my heart stopped. A tall, skinny girl with straight blonde hair that fell down to her waist strolled in. Wearing cargo pants and a t-shirt, she walked up to his table and sweetly brushed his lips with hers. She took the seat in front of him and they talked briefly before she pulled a book out from her backpack and they sat in silence, reading together, their knees touching under the table.
I knew her. She was in my class. She was intelligent and said things that made the professor cup his chin with his index finger and say “hmm.” I liked her, and yet here she was sitting with my Tim. I needed to hate her, but I couldn’t.
It should have been me, I thought as I buried my head in my book, underlin-ing incomprehensible passages with my blue pen, my mind wandering back to that hot summer night, wishing I could have it all again—the hot humid air, the fruity wine and him—his curly black hair tickling my breasts, the half-empty glasses of wine sitting outside on the patio awaiting our return.
Of all the guys in this room, I had to lay my eyes on the one who was giving me my grade.
Lisa Evans
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