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Ira DavidWood III gets scrooged.Though best known for his portrayal of the lovable yet miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in his own musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol,

David has plenty to be happy about. For one “Hallo-Giving-Mas” is on the way. “That’s what we—the cast and crew—celebrate once rehearsals start.”

And two; he’s not in heels. “My hat’s off to women for walking around in those things. I know how difficult it is.” In his thirty year tenure at Theatre In

The Park, David has sparked a resurgence in The Bard, been voted Best Local Actor in dozens of public opinion polls, presented three keys to the City

of Raleigh and received The Order of The Long Leaf Pine (one of the highest honors this state can bestow on its citizens). Those are pretty ambitious

accolades for a man who’s most comfortable in tights and long knickers. Read more at raleigh.skirt.com.

What’s the best thing about wearing a skirt? “The updraft.”

What’s the best thing about reading skirt!? “Developing a sense of empathy.”

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Inner Strength

Among women in the Triangle, Charman is something of a celebrity.

Her eight-week, women-only “Booty Camp” has changed many a body, mind and spirit. “I’ve found my life’s work,”

said the health and wellness coach. The program, known for its intense workouts, healthy eating plan and steady stream of support and motivation,

is designed for success. Forget the routine, says Charman, and be goal-oriented. “Once you know what you want,

you can do anything to maintain your health—walk, jump rope, lift weights.”

Read more at Raleigh.skirt.com.

How does it feel to exercise for the first time?

“There is no better high on earth, but don’t take my word for it. Go get high!”

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“I got this personalized mouse pad from Monograms for my daughter’s birthday. What a perfect and easy gift.” Peter, Manager

“These peel-off nail polishes from Madison are fantastic! I change my nail color all the time and this makes changing polishes easy and fun, too.”Cristina, Advertising Associate

“The occasional sleepless night is no longer a problem thanks to Chanel’s Blanc eyeliner. It’s my morning go-to, coffee or no.”Allison, Editor

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“Rose 31 by Le Labo is a unisex perfume—it’s seductive without being too sweet. Until I can afford a bottle, I’ll settle for The Laundress/Rose 31 laundry soap from thelaundress.com.”Nikki, skirt! Publisher

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“A friend gifted me a membership to Cellars Wine Club. How lucky am I?

They have a variety of offerings for even the fussiest of wine lovers. Caitilin, National Art Director

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This issue of skirt! was put together to the sounds of:FirecrackerThe Wailin’ Jennys

Lero-LeroLuisa Maíta

JasmineKeith Jarrett/Charlie Haden

Dream AtticRichard Thompson

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For instant enlightenment, choose a mantra and then slide the beads on the iMantra screen to hear it spoken. Or, touch the Buddha’s beggar bowl and the mantra is spoken continuously. $3.99 from the iTunes App Store.

For one of the best playlists around, visit the Magnolia Pearl website. Yes, she makes some wild and crazy clothing, but her taste in music rocks, too. Check our her blog at magnoliapearl.com.

Let’s Get Lost, the mesmerizing documentary by Bruce Weber on jazz giant Chet Baker, is available on YouTube in 12 short segments. Get lost in the music and the life when you’re stuck in line or a waiting room. Google “Let’s Get Lost documentary” at youtube.com.

PhilosophersNotes is billed as “More Wisdom in Less Time.” You can buy the book or download the app that will condense and summarize these Big Ideas in a way that will make you want to learn more. philosophersnotes.com

Trouble sleeping? With White Noise, you click on a sound—thunderstorm, waves crashing, chirping crickets, etc.—and let your iPhone emit soothing soundtracks. The app features a volume fader and timer so your handset can “drift off ” at a time you select or wake you up gently. Download at iTunes. Created by tmsoft.com.

Page TurnersThe Pleasure SeekersTishani Doshi

Cross-cultural love is noth-ing new, but rarely has it been portrayed with such poignancy and intimacy as in the poet Tishani Doshi’s memoir of her parents’ mar-riage. While living in London, a young couple (she’s Welsh; he’s Indian) fall passionately in love, despite his parents’ opposition. A mandated move to India and the start of their own hybrid family only serve to deepen their affection, though not without obstacles.

Allison Beale, Editor

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman Sam Wasson

This book about the making of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is as absorbing as the movie itself, and the cast of real-life characters just as fascinating as the fictional ones.

Nikki Hardin, Publisher

Life, Love & LaughterDonavon FrankenreiterRave OnWanda JacksonAll the Good ThingsBob RyanWalking My Baby Back HomeDean MartinI’m Coming OverAshley Monroe & Trent Dabbs

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The summer after graduate school, I accepted a job as a copywriter at a well-known pub-lishing firm. I had been recruited and hired by a woman named Serena, a blonde, coolly professional woman, who praised my work lavishly. I loved my job. But two months later, Serena was inexplicably fired. They replaced her with a shrill, sarcastic woman named Crystal, who’d once worked for—and been fired by—Serena, and so she took an instant dislike to anyone Serena had hired. Especial-ly me. I believed my work was good; I was

diligent, always met deadlines and the editors consistently praised me. Yet each week Crystal would summon me to her office and catalog what she labeled as my professional failings. Some nights, weary and ready to weep, I would finally pry myself from the vise-hold of that office, and Crystal would look pointedly at the clock. “Running out early again?” she would say.

I couldn’t wait to get home. My cat would meow plaintively as soon as she heard my key in the door. Some nights, when I was just too tired to cook dinner, I’d go to the freezer, shave off a slice of frozen Sara Lee chocolate cake, sit by the window and listen to a scratchy recording of Dvorak’s New World Symphony. I was dismal that winter. I had just lost my beloved Aunt Jeanette, and Dvorak’s sonorous second movement, a beautifully melancholy melody based on an old spiritual called “Going Home,” spoke to my sadness.

Home was my haven. Alone in my 11- by 14-foot bedroom, I would sit for hours at my desk, a long butcher block slab that rested on white particle board crates. Night-ly I would fill the pages of a black and white marble composition book, parsing the events of the day. Writing was my refuge. Writing pinned the chaos to the page; it made it containable and manageable. I was 25, living alone for the first time, in a diminutive one-bedroom apartment near New York University. I was finishing a master’s degree there and had been dating another student named Victor on and off for two years. I liked and admired Victor, and I loved that he could always make me laugh, but I felt not an ounce of passion for him. I was repulsed by his sexual overtures; his kisses were so sticky that I wanted to wipe my mouth. One icy rush-hour evening, Victor managed to wedge his foot between the subway car and platform. While he was recuperating, I stupidly spent a night with a man who’d pursued me unsuccess-fully all through college (and who, once I’d finally succumbed, didn’t call again for three months). It had left me feeling used, bruised and abandoned. I was still licking that wound a week later, when a strike by the city’s transit workers derailed the entire subway and bus grid, bringing all five boroughs of New York to a standstill.

“Don’t know how I’m going to navigate getting to work on these crutches,” said Victor, who lived out in Queens. “Any way I could camp out at your place?”

It didn’t even occur to me that it was possible to refuse. All I could say was, “But you’re allergic to my cat.”

“I accept your gracious invitation,” he said.For the next 11 days and nights that the strike lasted, Victor, as well as

Meg, our mutual friend from Brooklyn, camped out in my apartment, passing containers of Kung Pao chicken and sesame noodles. My refuge had become a flophouse: Victor and his crutches took over the tiny bedroom and Meg com-mandeered the sofa bed that, when open, covered most of the living room floor. The only privacy to be had was in the small windowless bathroom, strewn with towels, toiletries and a large litter box. There was nowhere to write, nowhere to read, nowhere just to be. Each morning I couldn’t wait to leave. I would lace my sneakers, toss my high heels into a tote bag and walk two avenues west and 40 blocks north to my office overlooking Rockefeller Center. Exhausted, I would fortify myself with endless cups of coffee. By lunchtime my fingers would jitter across the typewriter keys.

And so the transit strike labored on amidst rumors it would not resolve before summer. One morning, Crystal ripped up the pile of press releases I’d written the day before, dropped a mountain of manuscripts she demanded I read for the next day and departed the office in a miasma of malice. I cradled my head in my arms, fighting tears.

My face grew hot, my hands icy; my heart pounded. Suddenly I couldn’t breathe. The sense of impending doom was overwhelming. I was certain I was going to die.

I thought: I can’t do this anymore. I shoved manuscripts into my tote bag and fled. I couldn’t even feel the

legs that carried me out of that cubicle and into the elevator. The sky was so bright it hurt. I don’t remember how I got home; all I remember is flinging myself onto my bed, still flailing against the quicksand pull of panic. I thought I was going mad.

I now know that what I suffered that day was a classic panic attack. Not surprising, given that I felt hounded at work, constricted with grief for my aunt and strangled in a dreary, dead-end relationship from which I did not know how to extricate myself. For as long as the transit strike wore on, I had—quite literally—nowhere left of my own.

The strike ended eventually, and the house guests departed. I found a ther-apist, booked a Club Med trip with my college roommate, and, two months later, on the aptly named Paradise Island, I met the man who would become my husband within the year.

And I quit my job.Since then, I have made sure always to preserve a place of my own. I feel

most grounded when I am in front of the keyboard, most fully myself. At my desk, I am still the dreamy teen writing unrequited love poetry to an older teacher; the harried young mother eagerly snatching at spare moments while the babies nap; and the middle-aged woman, struggling to wrest meaning from the mystery of a disabled son. When I write, I feel ageless, forever forging myself in the word smithy of my soul.

Liane Kupferberg Carter’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Huffington Post, McCall’s, Parents, Child, New Parent, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, skirt!, Literary Mama, Babble, and Errant Parent.

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Writing was my refuge. Writing pinned the chaos to the page; it made it containable and manageable.

20. It’s the Tar Heels vs. Wolfpack in North Carolina’s most famous foot-ball rivalry, this year at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill. Be there, or watch on TV. It’s the big game.

20. Raleigh’s 66th annual Christmas parade kicks off at 9:30am and makes its way through downtown streets. It’s the biggest parade between Atlanta and DC; be there early.

23. PlayMakers Repertory Com-pany in Chapel Hill will host the Vision Series director’s preview of the holiday show SHIPWRECKED! Free; RSVP to box office at 962.PLAY.

25. Head to Wake Forest for the 5th annual Gobbler’s Run 5K, to benefit the Boys and Girls Club. Race begins at 8am; register for $15 until Nov. 14. gobblersrun.com

26. Members of the Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild show and sell their works at the well-known annual Thanksgiving week-end show. Tickets: carolinadesigner-craftsmenguild.org.

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Spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon downtown, racing (or walking) in the 27th annual Old Reliable Run. It’s a Carolina classic. Register or volunteer at unitedwaytriangle.org/orr

“Discover the Real George Washington” at the NC Museum of History. A traveling exhibit with a refreshing perspective on our nation’s first president and his achievements, it runs through Jan. 21. Tickets, details: ncmuseumofhistory.org

Count your blessings today and lend a hand to people who aren’t as fortunate. How? Donate money or volunteer to help with the Durham Rescue Mission’s annual Thanksgiving community dinner. Find out more and sign up at durhamrescuemission.org.

2.Celebrate the story of one young boy’s dream. Billy Elliot the Musicalcontinues its run through Nov. 14 at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Tickets: dpac.com.

10. Writer/come-dian Amy Sedaris reads from her new book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People, at 7:30pm at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Details: quailridgebooks.com.

7. Nostalgia rules in the world of Norman Rockwell. See for yourself in the art ex-hibit, “American Chronicles,” today through Jan. 30. NC Museum of Art. Tickets: 715.5923

13. Chef/traveler/raconteur Anthony Bourdain brings his No Reservations tour, his incredible stories and his bad self to Raleigh’s Me-morial Auditorium. ticketmaster.com

13. Responsibly dispose of old paint, TVs, computers, plastic bags and more. 10am-2pm, Seaboard Station. It’s America Re-cycles Day. Details: keepncbeautiful.org.

15. Sylvia Benson Trunk Show at Scout and Molly’s in North Hills. Adorn yourself with gorgeous, original accessories worth adding to your collection.

19.Raunchy, rel-evant and political. We must be talking about come-dian Margaret Cho. Catch her “Cho-Dependent” tour at Carolina Theater in Durham. Tix: carolinatheatre.org.

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