Back from a glorious honeymoon and a week of much-needed rest. (Wedding pictures coming soon!)

We spent the week on the roiling, surfy South Carolina coast, now under gentle rainfall, now through dramatic lightningstorms, and most often under sunny Hilton Head skies. As we gazed out our balcony one afternoon, freshly married, the ocean sky seemed to send us an editorial benediction with a wedding ring of its own:

Click on picture to get a full sense of the scene!

To fast my brain, I wrote absolutely nothing all week, and to nourish it, fed it four books:

• Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, Death of a Salesman (I can’t believe I never got around to reading this before!—what a magnificent piece of writing);
• Og Mandino’s classic, The Greatest Salesman in the World (Mandino and Miller make one intriguing set of bookends to the American Sales Experience; and yes, it’s true, I’ve never actually gotten around to reading most of the famous business parables, and decided it’s something I really ought to do);
• John Updike’s wildly and woolily satirical A Month of Sundays (Updike is not a flavor everyone enjoys; you have to be patient enough to traipse through sentences roughly the length of the Appalachian trail);
• and Dean Koontz’s recent addition to the magnificent Odd Thomas series, the graphic novel In Odd We Trust (I am a sucker for Odd Thomas).

It’s good to be back. So many gorgeous summer-and-fall days to drink in, so many books to write!

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