On my coffee table is a perfect sand dollar brought home from my favourite place on Earth, Topsail Beach, North Carolina.
“Our town is a quiet beach community located at the southern tip of Topsail Island,” is how townspeople describe their hometown on the Internet. “Two other towns, Surf City and North Topsail Beach, occupy the rest of the island.”
With utter respect for the word, I call Topsail a “village”, a village whose backyard is the mighty and majestic Atlantic Ocean.