Instinct told me to get a stick and knock it to the ground. My heart told me to leave it alone. And so I did. And then I questioned the desire to destroy it at all and came up with the only answer that made any sense. Fear. It scared the wits out of me.<< MORE >>

The Outer Banks are a string of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast. Beautiful, rugged, and individual,they are to me about as creative a hotbed as Key West. In fact, it is on these islands that I wrote my first book.<< MORE >>

It wasn’t until I entered that quiet place of my walking meditation that I saw it. Tracks. Out of place. Unrecognizable, yet strangely familiar. They almost looked like snowmobile tracks, something I had seen many times living in New England. Then it hit me. They were sea turtle tracks.<< MORE >>

Andrew Zimmerman, host of The Food Network’s Bizarre Foods once ate squid tentacles immediately after cut from the body and while they were still squirming. He said he could feel the suction cups doing their thing.<< MORE >>

Twenty five years in New Hampshire taught me many things. What it didn't teach me was how to prepare for hurricanes.<< MORE >>

Everybody dreams of chucking their lives and moving to the beach. They enter into the "if only" zone. If only I could do this, or achieve that, or be this, or do that, then I could move to the beach. Truth of the matter is, the rules for how to live on the beach aren't that much different than living everyplace else.<< MORE >>

I’ve might not have notice them if it hadn’t been for my dog, Buddy. He stopped to pee on a bush and there they were. << MORE >>

Part of the allure of living in a place where everyday is a summer day is the abundance of flowers. Enjoy this virtual bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day.<< MORE >>

May 2nd is World Labyrinth Day. Walk a labyrinth with Pug.<< MORE >>

Fruit Brokers work this way: They contract with you to buy the fruit on your tree, harvesting it when it ripens. Usually money exchanges hands, $100 or so from what I’m told, and perhaps a bucket of fruit is included in the payment. And while that’s pretty interesting in its own right, what’s more amazing is how the mangos grow. << MORE >>