::By Post::

liz and me, fort worden, washington (photo by liz)

Thanks to everyone who attended my Writing Lab panel at BlogHer. It was a treat to talk with some of you afterwards and to meet other lovely folks in the halls and elevators. If we didn't get a chance to connect, you can always email me or leave a comment.

I'm sitting at JFK, waiting for my flight out of New York. But I'm not headed back to Pennsylvania. I'm flying to Nantucket to visit a new friend, soak up the sea, and do some writing.

I met this new friend last spring when I was visiting my pal Liz in the Pacific Northwest. When she (the new friend) heard that I'm working on a book about seascapes, she invited me to visit Nantucket and experience the coastline 30 miles out to sea.

Meanwhile, my pal Liz is going to be on the Oregon coast this week, the exact days that I'll be on the Atlantic. It seemed too serendipitous not to come up with a project. (If you spend any sort of time with Liz, you will learn she is all about the collaborative projects.) (She helped me to dream up Lanterns and was one of the contributors.)

So this week, inspired by an exercise in Liz's new book, we plan to send (virtual) postcards of poetry to one another from coast to coast (by way of our blogs).

I hope you will come along and see what adventures unfold for each of us on our travels by the sea....