Dear Aunt Bossy,

I'€™m a male and a Senior in High School. I'€™m smart and look ok. I have good manners and dress nicely, but am not rich or trendy. I work part-time at the grocery store.

Next year, I am going away to college, and want to be a different person. I'€™m sort of nerdy, and am not good at small talk, especially with girls. The only thing I have going for me is that I am at the top of my class and gifted in music. I can'€™t compete with those stud types who do sports and know what to say all the time.

The 2017 Friends of the Beaufort Library Fall Book Sale is right around the corner, with thousands of boxes of donated books plus audio-visual materials (books, music, and movies) available at give-away prices for the annual fundraiser.

Interview by Jonathan Haupt

A Hilton Head Island native, writer and artist Nicole Seitz is the author of six novels, including The Spirit of Sweetgrass, The Inheritance of Beauty, and Beyond Molasses Creek. Nicole'€™s fiction has been honored by Library Journal, Romantic Times, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, the Christian Booksellers Association, the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, and Books-a-Million.

Norma Deal will present her paintings in a show called "From Folk Art to Fine Art"€ September 5th through October 1st at the gallery of the Society of Bluffton Artists, located at 6 Church Street. Come meet the artist in person at the opening reception from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, September 10th at the gallery.