A conversation with Lowcountry Weekly publisher Jeff Evans, my husband and co-star in the upcoming Valentine’s production of “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” by Mark Twain.

Margaret Evans: So, Jeff, do you feel a little weird about promoting our performance right here in our own publication? Doesn’t it seem a little… self-serving? Opportunistic? Vain?

Jeff Evans: No.

The world is new each morning – that is God’s gift, and a man should believe he is reborn each day.

-  Israel Ben Eliezer

 I stood on Fripp Island’s shoreline New Year’s Day to watch the sun rise. Against the backdrop of an incandescent horizon, small waves rolled across a stretch of beach colliding and tumbling, becoming one and then disappearing, leaving behind the sizzling sound water makes as it sifts and sinks in between granules of sand.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

It’s early on a Monday morning and my feet are cold. I’ve jumped in bed with my daughter – who, at age 10, blessedly, still likes to snuggle – hoping to warm them up and ease us both into the week.