ANNE HODGES WHITE

The close observer can watch the beach breathing. But for a few lone walkers with coffee mugs, the early morning beach is empty. The sun...

This shell could be 10,000 to 20,000 years old. A gray whelk — its spire sea-beaten off, its mantle sea-crashed in, its once lustrous...

“Artifacts endure: objects suggesting an uncommon journey through a territory, objects as signposts along back roads known only to the traveler, objects as symbols of a child’s queries. My brother and I inherited a small wooden box from our dad. In the division of stuff after he died, I asked for it. I put it away, in a special place. Several years later, I stumbled across a writing exercise given to his students by Robert Olen Butler, gifted writer and teacher of creative wr