One summer, Grandpa allowed me to tag along to the cornfield. The sun warmed my back and the musky scent of rain-washed earth hung in the...

Reprint: News article announcing “Shifting Shorelines” as a 2022 Gold Award Winner “Shifting Shorelines: Messages from a Wiser Self,”...

Idle is a much maligned word, often defined as lazy or slothful. And, yet, in our fast-paced society, with the world-wide web at our...

At 25 years of age, I didn’t know what to make of the eerie feeling that Mama, who had passed only two weeks earlier, was “hanging”...

Recently, I had a virtual, heart-to-heart conversation with my dear and long-time friend Sue Monk Kidd. When I learned almost 900 people...

Flood tides are small epiphanies, treasured moments of well-being that swell the heart with love and gratitude. The release of my new...

Shifting Shorelines

My book Shifting Shorelines is a culmination of hours spent beside the sea listening to my greatest teacher, Mother Nature. She is both...

1. In your book Shifting Shorelines, you never name the Florida barrier island where you live. Why? I purposely never named the island...

More than a year of masks, social distancing, and refraining from friendly hugs and handshakes has left me hungry for face-to-face...

ELLE MAGAZINE’S 2012 GRAND PRIX NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Moonlight on Linoleum was chosen as ELLE Magazine’s 2012 Grand Prix...

My sisters and I wearing our Comeback Tour T-shirts: Patricia, Brenda, Joni (holding “flat” Vicki), Terry, and Nancy As research for...