'The Pink Teacup' for June VIE

“I seem to have lived in a series of pink houses throughout my life. The first was in Mogadishu, Somalia, when I was a young girl. The second, in the early 2000s, was an eighteenth-century townhouse on Rainbow Row in Charleston, South Carolina. Now I live in another eighteenth-century pink house around the corner on Church Street, one of the most beautiful streets in the city. The house is the size of a teacup—with the charm of one too. The special appeal of the abode is the small balcony overlooking the street. Unbelievably, no one stepped onto the balcony for over thirty years.

I chose the pink teacup because of that balcony and the street’s busyness below, which reminded me of cities in my childhood. The streets in the Middle Eastern and African cities were newspapers in motion, all sections: front page, editorial, sports, even advertising pages. The verbal secret newspaper. Gossip central. News, free for all!”

Read more about the Pink Teacup house, its balcony overlooking (and overhearing) Church Street, and all the changes endured…in the latest issue of VIE Magazine HERE.

"How to Get across the Road when a Python is in your Way" for VIE

Suzanne muses on a childhood spent in Nigeria, encountering wild animals and adopting a foreign culture as her own, up until her family fled the Biafran War. Read about her journey and lessons learned in the August issue of VIE Magazine, HERE on their wesite...