Before we left home for our trek to the beach, I wondered if I could leave all my duties and responsibilities undone for a week.A miraculous thing always happens when we arrive in Avon, North Carolina.My memory gets wiped clean.I can't remember what I had to do that was so important it couldn't wait.As I… Continue reading Perspective — the first gift of the sea
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Left in the Dark
On Saturday afternoon I sat alone in our house surrounded by an eerie, totally unfamiliar kind of quiet. The only sound I heard was Nikki breathing as he sat near my feet. No hum of computers, no fans or air conditioning, music or television, no ringing phones or ice plinking into the freezer bin. No… Continue reading Left in the Dark
Laurie Snow Turner 