Staying Up When You’ve Only Got Down

Dear Aunt Bossy,

My daughter has Down Syndrome. She is high functioning and has been a delight to our family since she was born.

            Our problem is the public, and some of my friends. When people see her, or talk to me when she is with me, they treat her like an infant or a dog, or someone who couldn’t possibly understand language. They baby talk, or talk loud and slow, or pat her on the head.

Carissa Doig came back from the darkness of MS to open Creations & Libations of the Lowcountry, a Wine & Paint Boutique.

Sometimes, you have to lose your vision in order to gain it.

            “Ten years ago, if you’d told me I'd be living in South Carolina and running my own Wine & Paint Boutique, I’d have told you that you were crazy,” says Carissa Doig.

            When Carissa was 22, she had a very promising career as a regional manager and makeup artist for a well-known fashion cosmetics brand. “One morning I woke up and my vision was blurred,” she says. “A week later I was unable to see out of half of my right eye.”

By Margaret Evans, Editor

It’s Saturday morning and I’m up early. I need to get this column off my plate before heading out to St. Helena Island for the day. To paraphrase “the most interesting man in the world,” I don’t always spend my Saturdays on St. Helena, but when I do, it’s usually because of Pat Conroy.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Lowcountry is excited to present South Carolina’s very own singer-songwriter Angela Easterling in concert on March 24.