It’s an annual migration, as dependable and–with bright beach towels, umbrellas, and bathing suits–nearly as colorful as the swallows that return every year to San Juan Capistrano, California or the monarch butterflies that flutter through Cape May, New Jersey, on their way south.  The floodgates open in early June as soon as school doors close.  Traveling by car, by boat, and even by bicycle, suitcases packed for a week or, if they are lucky, for a whole glorious summer, families head back to the sea, reclaiming their idyllic patch of coastline.

–from A Home by the Sea

 

A Home by the Sea, Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2000

The Southern Garden, Southern Accents Magazine, 2002 (contributor)

A Matter of Choice, Seal Press, 2004 (contributor)

Hobble-de-hoy! the Word Game for Geniuses: 1001 Curious Words and Definitions, W.W. Norton, 1986