A week from today will be my 35th birthday. It sounds sort of old to me, although when I try to make sure my partner understands the significance of this birthday--”35! This is a big one!”--in an effort to be sure I’m appropriately gifted, h...

I bike almost everywhere I go in Charleston, and I find that it’s generally a wonderful part of my life--but fairly often it has its challenging aspects.  For instance, biking home I come up Coming, following all the laws of traffic, and at le...

I was at a friend’s beachside rehearsal dinner recently, an event where I knew very few people.  At one point in the evening, another guest and I got into a game of trying to figure each other out based on personal appearance.  It was my ...