What a well needed respite. God must’ve known I needed the ocean! And I’d not seen the Atlantic from the US side! (I said hello to it in Portugal instead).

Pictured are five of us authors, the neighborhood the beach house lived, the boardwalk to Sunset Beach, my friend MaryBeth writing a note to the Kindred Spirit mailbox (which her excellent beach read, The Mailbox, was based on), the water, and a beautiful shell a little smaller than my foot.