Oh what a beautiful morning! Now if only everything would go my way!!

Wild looking sky! huh?

A rough and following sea.

The beach is not always sunny and warm – Today I took a stroll along what tiny bit of sand Mother Nature was leaving for me to walk on and was reminded of how powerful, beautiful and majestic the Atlantic is – In the above picture the two pilings standing in the mist are what…

Okay – here it is. The cover for the brand new book THE TRILL OF THE RED-WING BLACKBIRD.  This is the second in the trilogy of the continuing saga about our beloved Topsail Island. This book opens in 1954 with Hurricane Hazel (remember that witch?) and travels through time to around 1960 – when all…

This is a picture of me when I worked as a waitress at Barnacle Bill’s. The young man with his arm around me is Roger Hanson, a young Marine from Camp Lejeune. I had a tremendous crush on him then. He and his friend Jimmy often came to my family’s house for dinner. They worked…

I think I have posted this before, but I am posting it again – these are the KIDS OF SURF CITY -I know a few are missing – some very important to our “crew.” If you have any pictures that include more please post them. I love you all – well, most of the time.…

I was behind a school bus today and a thought occurred to me – a distinction between the teens of the fifties, sixties and seventies and the teens of today – During those decades teens were given a most important responsibility – driving a school bus. It carried our most precious assets – our children.…

This is a photo of the old pontoon bridge that was used for access to Topsail back in the 1940s. I wish I could have been around then to experience that. My brother remembers it but I was too young. It was not until early 1956 that the swing bridge (still in use and which…

I never did very well in science when I was in high school or in college. But I know there is a reason why the ocean looks differently in Summer and Winter, in Spring and Fall. But those of us that grew up living by the ocean can probably look at a photo of the…