If you need a gift idea for this weekend (Mother’s Day is Sunday) or a May birthday (my sister’s, today, so make that a belated birthday gift), then click on over to Katie Runnels’s site, The Constant Gatherer. Katie, an artist who lives in ...

I had the incredible good fortune to see Marlee Matlin speak today.  Her ability to communicate is, well, awe-inspiring. She gave her entire speech in sign language, with her...

You’ve heard it a hundred times.  Charlestonians are like the Chinese: they eat rice and worship their ancestors. Still, I imagine it’s an odd site, a Chinese dragon boat gliding out from the salt marshes, historic Charleston just behind ...