'Why I'm Wearing Pink' for J. McLaughlin Blog

Name: Suzanne Pollak

 Location: SC in the cutest little pink house in downtown Charleston

 About You: Founder and Dean of the Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits. The Academy celebrates all the possibilities of home, making the world a better place one cocktail at a time, one party at a time, one connection at a time, all from home. 

Why I’m Wearing Pink This Month:

The scariest part of breast cancer was going through cancer as a single person, not knowing how vulnerable I would be or what I would need. But then, angels alighted from all over, some old friends, some brand new, all helping me in every way imaginable. I wondered where they parked their wings. I was able to let myself accept help because I had to. I felt love and respect from so many that that energy became part of my deep healing. I just had my one year check up October 1 which brings me to my advice: Do not do what I did and wait 10 years to go to a doctor. 

In partnership with Breastcancer.org,  J. McLaughlin will be donating 10% of proceeds from all sales online and in-store on October 17, 2020. Additionally, 10% of proceeds from their limited-edition pink mask sales are also being directly donated to Breastcancer.org.

Read about all four of the incredible women who share why they’re wearing pink this October, via J. McLaughlin’s blog HERE!

'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.