Carlye Jane Dougherty and I are casually seated next to an exposed red brick fireplace in her charming home in historic downtown Charleston, SC. We’re sipping a perfectly chilled white wine, which helps soften the balmy afternoon air wafting inRead more
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Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival Presents Spellbinding Speakers
As part of the Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival in Charleston, SC, English author and aristocrat Charles Spencer (aka Princess Diana’s brother) is discussing his recently published book, To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape. He speaks before aRead more
Entertaining Expert Suzanne Pollak on Living More Beautifully at Home
Suzanne Pollak is preparing a frisée salad for our lunch. She adds bacon (“You do eat pork?” she considerately asks), grinds some of her new-favorite pepper mélange, and tops the bowl with the largest, toastiest, most geometrically precise cubes of croutonsRead more
Timeouts and Turning Points on Kiawah Island
My pulse quickens as always when my husband, Bill, and I cross Maybank Highway and head straight on Bohicket Road for the final stretch of the drive through Johns Island to Kiawah Island. It revs up more a few hundredRead more
Noble Efforts – Award-Winning Chef Jim Noble’s Take On Southern Cuisine
As much as we enjoy dining out during our travels, we find it rather ironic that one of our favorite restaurants ever was just 30 miles from home. Sadly, the place is long closed, but the memories linger. We wereRead more
Wing Haven — Charlotte’s Hidden Gardens
“Are you cruel enough to be a gardener?” That challenging question was imprinted on a T-shirt for sale at the Elizabeth Lawrence House and Garden in Charlotte that I was touring on a sultry day with curator Andrea Sprott asRead more
The Never-Ending Lure of Charleston
When Bill and I realized our nephew, Ben, a senior basketball player at The College of William and Mary, and his team (Go Tribe!) would play against College of Charleston, we put Charleston on our travel radar. Actually, we didn’tRead more
Angel Oak Tree – A Heavenly Site
We’d been to Kiawah, a barrier island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, dozens of times. With its 10 mile-long pristine, unspoiled beach, Kiawah is our favorite coastal destination in the South. On all our visits, however, we’d neverRead more