Bluffton resident Tisha Chafer has recently launched a new health-coaching business, The Green Smoothie Gal, which promotes "Easy Nutrition for those on the Go." Clients can participate through an e-newsletter filled with recipes and tips or one-on-one nutritional health and wellness counseling.

From the basics to the big stuff, the Backyard Tourist has what's hot at Beaufort's local outfitters.    By Mark Shaffer

For a lot of locals and visitors alike, summer in the Lowcountry is all about being on, in or near the water. It's second nature for natives. After all, when you live on an island you're never far from water, and if you grew up in Beaufort chances are a large part of your summer was spent A) on a sandbar, B) in the river, C) on a boat or D) A, B and C.

Holistic Shakespeare: acting classes at ARTworks

Dr. Debra Charlton is the author of Holistic Shakespeare: An Experiential Learning Approach (Intellect Books 2012). She is a theatre director, educator and writer whose reviews and articles on Shakespeare training and performance have appeared in numerous publications.

By Will Balk, Jr.

Gardeners probably have as many reasons for not gardening as we do for actually gardening. Fortunately for most of us, the urge to get dirty and the craving for luscious home-grown produce or the joy of brilliant flowers and varied foliage overwhelm any tendency toward complete abandonment. Most of the time, anyway.