We grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. That's part of the "would-be Southerner." Our parents are totally New Yorkers, our grandmother's a New Yorker. But they moved us down to Charleston when we were very little, and so we grew up there with this tinge of perspective on the place that has actually served us well.
Sooner or later you're going to know someone who has suffered a loss, or just got some very bad news, or is going through a crisis. And you're going to want to say something, but you just don't know what to say. Now writer and trainer Robbie Miller Kaplan has help.