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Dear September, I love your lumbering yellow school buses and freshly sharpened No.2 yellow pencils. Your sweet sunlight with a tart edge of sadness that tastes like muscadine grapes. Your ripe full moons and corn- maze labyrinths. Your just-right weather, not too hot and not too cold. Your Libra balancing act between summer and winter, hello and goodbye. september Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, Art by Jackie Besteman first downs and seventh-inning stretches. Your mellow, apple-cider mood. Your laid-back Labor Day weekend and celestial Equinox celebration. Your breathtaking, earthshaking hymn to Demeter. Your sun-colored goldenrod and traveling butterflies. Your blue-eyed sky like autumn’s cathedral above us. “Autumn, the year’s last loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryant skirt!isfree! www.skirt.com Your Fresh Starts, Columbia/Augusta/Aiken
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Dear September,

I love your lumbering yellow school buses and

freshly sharpened No.2 yellow pencils. Your sweet

sunlight with a tart edge of sadness that tastes like

muscadine grapes. Your ripe full moons and corn-

maze labyrinths. Your just-right weather, not too

hot and not too cold. Your Libra balancing act

between summer and winter, hello and goodbye.

septemberAugusta, Aiken & Columbia

Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, Art by Jackie Besteman

first downs and seventh-inning stretches. Your

mellow, apple-cider mood. Your laid-back

Labor Day weekend and celestial Equinox

celebration. Your breathtaking, earthshaking

hymn to Demeter. Your sun-colored goldenrod

and traveling butterflies. Your blue-eyed sky like

autumn’s cathedral above us.

“Autumn, the year’s last loveliest smile.”

William Cullen Bryant

skirt!isfree!www.skirt.com

Your Fresh Starts,

Columbia/Augusta/Aiken

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From the Publisher

Gracie [email protected]

Cover ArtistJackie Besteman

Jackie graduated from The

Ontario College of Art &

Design and has been a free-

lancer ever since. Her colorful

work has been seen in many

publications in Canada and the

US. Going digital a few years

ago has made illustrating even

more fun and so the journey

continues. She has recently

started making patterns and

this has affected all aspects of

her work. Fashion and urban

life are big influences as well

as packaging with vibrant color

and beautiful design. Her work

has been recognized by Print

magazine and the Art Direc-

tors Club of Toronto, and

work was chosen for Ameri-

can Illustration Tribute Web

gallery in 2010.From the Editor

When Sally Keiser asked for more time to mull over her personal rules, I knew exactly how she

felt. I admire each of our profiled women in their eloquence, their confidence, and their freedom

in declaring to their skirt! sisters what rules they refuse to obey. If you asked me what rules I have

never gotten the hang of, like Sally, it would take me a few days to gather my thoughts. Some I can

think of right off—I never put my liquids in a Ziploc (don’t tell the TSA) and even though I write

for a living, I don’t even try to spell “recommend” or “embarrass” without spell check. Others I’m

still figuring out. Is having a messy desk a sign of a cluttered mind or a productive worker? Is it old-

fashioned and silly or just good taste and classic style to refuse to wear linen after Labor Day? This

issue will make you think about rules – the rules you follow and the ones that make you roll your

eyes. Read to be challenged.

Nikki [email protected]

theRules issue

Thou Shalt

When I was a kid, going to church was an unbreakable rule. It never

occurred to me to question it, and God forbid I should forget the white

cotton gloves that buttoned at the wrist or make a sound during the sermon.

Until my mother, who grew up as a hell’s-right-around-the-corner-for-the-

unwary Methodist, got a divorce. With the shocking rupture of that social

contract, she gave up church once and for all. It was as if God had been

as unfaithful as my father and she was heartily pissed off at both of them.

In one way, it was confusing to become what my beloved grandmother

called “heathens,” and to be cut off from something we had taken for

granted: a world where all of our friends went to church and none of

their parents were divorced and suffering was rewarded by a front-row

seat in heaven. On the other hand, I was personally delighted to have

my freedom from Sunday school lessons, youth groups and getting saved

every time a charismatic visiting preacher gave an altar call. Over the

years, I’ve drifted in and out of churches, but finally drifted out once and

for all. I have friends who take deep comfort in the unchanging liturgy

and caring community of a church, and sometimes I envy that a little and

never turn down their prayers. But even though hell is probably right

around the corner for me, I remain a heathen on my own version of a

spiritual journey. And I trust that if heaven does exist, my grandmother

will put in a good word for me.

US!VISIT

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!

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Eighth and Reynolds streets in downtown Augusta8-9 a.m. Registration 9:30 a.m. Walk begins

For more information, contact University HealthCare Foundation at 706-667-0030

NEW! Register online at www.TheMiracleMileWalk.org

Join University Hospital in the fight against breast cancer at the 11th annual Miracle Mile

Walk. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from this event stay in our community to

provide breast cancer care, including free mammograms, to underserved women.

Together we makemiracles happen.

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Fall Season plants will be arrivingfirst part of SeptemberLocally grown produce and plants

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The New Moon Cafe has beenlocally owned and operated

since 1995.Our specialty is authentic food — we roast our ownsustainable coffee, bake our own breads & pastries,

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Our monthly rotating list of specials featuresin-season, farmers market sourced ingredients.

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Lisa Bloom

To LiTTLe GirLs

How To

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For many more tips on how keep yourself and your daughter smart, check out Lisa Bloom’s new book, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World. Visit her website at think.tv, and follow Lisa on Twitter: twitter.com/LisaBloom.

I went to a dinner party at a friend’s home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time.

Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in her shiny pink nightgown. I wanted to squeal, “Maya, you’re so cute! Look at you! Turn around and model that pretty ruffled gown, you gorgeous thing!”

But I didn’t. I squelched myself. As I always bite my tongue when I meet little girls, restraining myself from my first impulse, which is to tell them how darn cute/pretty/beautiful/ well-dressed/well-manicured/well-coiffed they are.

What’s wrong with that? It’s our culture’s standard talking-to-little- girls icebreaker, isn’t it? And why not give them a sincere compliment to boost their self-esteem? Because they are so darling I just want to burst when I meet them, honestly.

Hold that thought for just a moment.This week ABC News reported that nearly half of all three- to six-year-old girls

worry about being fat. In my book, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World, I reveal that 15 to 18 percent of girls under 12 now wear mascara, eyeliner and lipstick regularly; eating disorders are up and self-esteem is down; and 25 percent of young American women would rather win America’s Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. Even bright, successful college women say they’d rather be hot than smart. A Miami mom just died from cosmetic surgery, leaving behind two teenagers. This keeps happening, and it breaks my heart.

Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for di-eting at age five and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23. As our cultural imperative for girls to be hot 24/7 has become the new normal, American women have become increasingly unhappy. What’s missing? A life of meaning, a life of ideas and reading books and being valued for our thoughts and accomplishments.

That’s why I force myself to talk to little girls as follows.“Maya,” I said, crouching down at her level, looking into her eyes, “very nice

to meet you.”“Nice to meet you too,” she said, in that trained, polite, talking-to-adults

good girl voice.“Hey, what are you reading?” I asked, a twinkle in my eyes. I love

books. I’m nuts for them. I let that show.Her eyes got bigger, and the practiced, polite facial expression gave

way to genuine excitement over this topic. She paused, though, a little shy of me, a stranger.

“I LOVE books,” I said. “Do you?”Most kids do.“YES,” she said. “And I can read them all by myself now!”“Wow, amazing!” I said. And it is, for a five-year-old. You go

on with your bad self, Maya.

“What’s your favorite book?” I asked.“I’ll go get it! Can I read it to you?”Purplicious was Maya’s pick and a new one to me, as Maya

snuggled next to me on the sofa and proudly read aloud every word, about our heroine who loves pink but is tormented by a group of girls at school who only wear black. Alas, it was about

girls and what they wore, and how their wardrobe choices defined their identities. But after Maya closed the final page, I steered the conversation to the deeper issues in the book: mean girls and peer pressure and not going

along with the group. I told her my favorite color in the world is green, because I love nature, and she was down with that.

Not once did we discuss clothes or hair or bodies or who was pretty. It’s surpris-ing how hard it is to stay away from those topics with little girls, but I’m stubborn.

I told her that I’d just written a book, and that I hoped she’d write one too one day. She was fairly psyched about that idea. We were both sad when Maya had to go to bed, but I told her next time to choose another book and we’d read it and talk about it. Oops. That got her too amped up to sleep, and she came down from her bedroom a few times, all jazzed up.

So, one tiny bit of opposition to a culture that sends all the wrong messages to our girls. One tiny nudge towards valuing female brains. One brief moment of in-tentional role modeling. Will my few minutes with Maya change our multibillion dollar beauty industry, reality shows that demean women, our celebrity-manic culture? No. But I did change Maya’s perspective for at least that evening.

Try this the next time you meet a little girl. She may be surprised and unsure at first, because few ask her about her mind, but be patient and stick with it. Ask her what she’s reading. What does she like and dislike, and why? There are no wrong answers. You’re just generating an intelligent conversation that respects her brain. For older girls, ask her about current events issues: pollution, wars, school budgets slashed. What bothers her out there in the world? How would she fix it if she had a magic wand? You may get some intriguing answers. Tell her about your ideas and accomplishments and your favorite books. Model for her what a thinking woman says and does.

And let me know the response you get at twitter.com/lisabloom and on Facebook.Here’s to changing the world, one little girl at a time.

“Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice

tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for dieting at age five

and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23.”

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Aug 27 - Sept 14Watkinsville, Georgia 30677

10am - 5pm daily FREE admissionPottery Exhibitions

Aug 27 through Sept 14, 2011, 10am - 5pm free parking and admission

Gallery Talks by Michael PittsOCAF Arts Center, Main Gallery | Sunday, September 4 & 11 at 1 pm

Self-Guided Studio TourAthens Area Potters, Sunday, September 11, 1-5pm. Maps available online at www.ocaf.com

Pottery Demonstrationsevery Sat, 1 -4 pm, Free - Rocket Hall Courtyard | 34 School Street, Watkinsville, GA 30677

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2021 Walton WayAugusta, GA706.736.6400Monday - Friday, 9-5www.persnicketyinteriors.net

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FREEAdmission & Kids RidesLive Music • Hellenic Dance

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What our troubled world

needs isa kiss on the lips

before breakfast.

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Vinya’s invites you to aJoseph RibcoffTRUNK SHOWWed – Sept 28th10am – 7pm

Featuring Fall & Holiday 2011Fun, Fashion, Refreshments

Receive a gift with every JR purchase!RSVP: 803.642.9684

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Tour of HomesOctober 7-9, 2011

34th Annual

Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Summerville

Presented by the Summerville Neighborhood Association

Visit www.SummervilleAugusta.org for tickets and tour information

Follow us on Facebook

“Augusta’s most historic neighborhood”

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f-word[ Feminism Free-For-All ]

Two years after Dr. George Tiller was murdered for

performing late-term abortions, the female doctor who

plans to reopen a clinic in Wichita, KS, has started receiv-

ing death threats. Kansas has enacted numerous pieces

of anti-abortion legislation in 2011 and recently denied

licenses to two of the three clinics still operating in the

state, which had 15 clinics in operation 20 years ago.

In July, an em-

ployee at the Dol-

lywood theme park

in Pigeon Forge,

TN, asked Olivier

Odom, a partner

in a lesbian couple,

to turn the t-shirt

she was wearing

inside out because

its slogan, Mar-

riage is so Gay, was

“inappropriate” in a

family park. Odom

complied in order

to avoid a scene in

front of the children

in her group, but she

and her partner filed

a complaint with the

park, asking it to be-

come more inclusive

of LGBT families.

“It’s very dear to me, the issue

of gay marriage, or as I like to

call it: marriage. You know,

because I had lunch today, not

gay lunch. I parked my car; I

didn’t gay park it.” Liz Feldman

Female enrollment is up at business schools,

and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton

School of Business leads the pack with a re-

cord 45% for the class of 2013. Deputy Director

of Admissions Ankur Kumar says that female

alumnae’s involvement in the recruitment pro-

cess is a large reason for growth. “[Alums] are

the featured stars of the show when we do our

presentations around the globe.”

Feldman

Saudi Arabia is currently the only nation in the world that prohibits women from driving or obtaining a driver’s license, which undercuts the com-mitment by Saudi leaders to abolish legislation and prac-tices that discriminate against women. Recently, 14 women members of the U.S. Senate called upon the King of Saudi Arabia to lift the ban, which limits women’s access to work, public places and commercial facilities.

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hez, PA-C,Dr.Theresa Christie, Dr. Mary Murray

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Nikki Hardin is the founder and publisher of skirt! magazine. She blogs at fridaville.com. Nikki Hardin is the founder and publisher of skirt! magazine. She blogs at fridaville.com.

My favorite way to escape at work, in an airport or a waiting room is through my Bose headphones. When I have to write or need breathing/thinking/dreaming space, I plug into iTunes and shut out the world.

I covet an ImagineNations™ globe made by San Francisco artist Wendy Gold. If “To the Rescue” didn’t cost the earth, I might splurge.

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Drawing and painting—making anything with my hands—shuts down the endless background chatter in my brain that’s filled with worry, shoulds, shames.

To Hawaii for the shock and awe of big waves that

To In-Love Land where adrenaline trumps loneliness.

My subconscious telling me to keep my feet on the ground,

But my night dreams are usually about getting on

shake the ground. To Spain for siestas to solve

Always daydreaming of

escape.

losing my way.

my heart in the here and

now.

my insomnia. To Paris to become an exotic expat.

To Croatia for the hell of it.

the wrong plane, forgetting my luggage, losing my ticket,

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