I'm so excited to share my first YOU TUBE video, taped in November, 2013 on Wells Beach in Maine. This is the first of a series sharing my beach combing adventures, treasures, information and tips about where, when, and how to find seashells on the beautiful Northeast coast.

    As summer came to a close and September dawned, I had time to reflect on the events of the summer of 2013. This past summer has been a pivotal time for me - my first children’s book was published in March and it has been a very exciting time since that opening event at Audubon’s Broad Meadow Brook in Worcester. Having my first children’s book published is a dream come true for this writer and artist. Ever since I was a child writing poetry daily in my little notebook, and drawing comics my Mémé sent me, I dreamed of one day putting the two together in books. I can remember learning to read - and it was so marvelous to me! I adore books and was always a voracious reader. I remember staying up all night even at a young age because I could not put a good book down and even burning a hole in my blanket trying to read with a bare light bulb! (Not the brightest thing I’ve ever done.) I wrote and illustrated my first book at the age of nine and felt sure then that this was the thing I was meant to do.
    So with much gratitude I thank Islandport Press for making this dream of mine come true. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Islandport Press and to Melissa Kim, my editor, Dean Lunt the owner and publisher and the whole team at Islandport Press. I appreciate everything you have done to polish and produce my educational children’s book. Thank you all!