From the brink of divorce to a thriving marriage, Sophie Orozco uses her personal experience and professional expertise to turn around the most hopeless of relationships. Orozco was facing divorce with four kids under the age of five and was determined to find a way to save her marriage despite her therapist saying it was […]
Discover The Dunlin: Discover a Dream
If I could carve a tiny piece of the South of France right off the map – perhaps some space of the Old world in the warmer months between Eze and Ville de Franche — I would do it. I would slice it off, put it in my pocket and bring it home. To sweeten it, […]
COCO RECAP: Pegula Claims First Charleston Title; Navarro Fades In Quarterfinals
Any hopes of Emma Navarro winning her hometown tournament will have to wait until next year as fellow American Amanda Anisimova ousted her in the quarterfinals of the Credit One Charleston Open on April 4. The tightly-contested match opened with eight straight holds as the servers hit their spots early. That was followed by three […]
Equal Pay For Play: Charleston Open To Offer Equal Prize Money Moving Forward
Next year will mark another historic milestone for the Credit One Charleston Open as the tournament will provide equal prize money to players starting in 2026. Getting out far ahead of the curve, COCO, North America’s largest women’s-only professional tennis tournament, becomes the first standalone WTA 500 tournament to voluntarily increase prize money prior to […]
In the Company of Women: Networking is the Best Medicine
Delia Owens, best-selling author of “Where the Crawdads Sing,” spoke at an event on Kiawah Island a couple of years ago. She addressed a group of women readers about her novel, which chronicled the journey an abandoned young girl who turned to the company of nature for solace and survival in an isolated environment. The […]
Social Media Butterfly: Emma Navarro Embraces New Off-Court Personality
Charleston tennis phenom Emma Navarro is known for her stone-cold seriousness and stoic demeanor on the court. But off the court she has recently begun displaying a more jovial side to her personality on social media. At the Credit One Charleston Open Media Day on March 31, the WTA 2024 Player of the Year talked […]
Eras of Extraordinary Lowcountry Women: Well-behaved women rarely make history
ELIZABETH MATTHEWS HEYWARD AND LOIS HALL During the British occupation of Charleston from May 12, 1780, until Dec. 14, 1782, Charleston’s population was divided in half between loyalists and patriots, many of whom were arrested and sent to St. Augustine for imprisonment. One such nationalist was Thomas Heyward, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of […]
Pioneers for Women: Charleston’s Grimke Sisters
Where would American politics be without women? This doesn’t just apply to those intrepid souls of all parties who run for public office but references the voice of every woman who is an integral part of the political process. Women comprise the largest voting bloc in the country. That wasn’t always the case, of course, […]
Nightmare on Wolfe Street
This spooky season, the Meddin building, located at 34 Woolfe Street, plays host to its inaugural Holy City Halloween, the first haunted attraction to come to downtown Charleston in 26 years. What could be a creepier set than the 17,000-square-foot warehouse? It was originally built in 1914 as an ice house before it was converted […]
Do it for you: Me Time Botanicals Skincare and Day Spa
If you’re looking for effortlessly gorgeous, brighter and firmer skin while trying to juggle life as a hardworking woman, look no further. Me Time Botanicals was created to give women who do it all a moment of “me time” through a simplified multitasking skincare ritual that delivers results. Kara Reich struggled with balancing life and […]