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Dear Reader,
When today's guest author Marci Nault isn't absorbed in the world of words and working on her next book, she can be found figure skating, salsa dancing, hiking and wine tasting around her home in California.
In addition to releasing her newest book, The Lake House Marci is the founder of 101dreamscometrue.com, a motivational website that encourages visitors to follow their improbable dreams. Marci is also the owner of Elegantbridaldesigns.com, an online bridal boutique.
Talk about energy. Where does this woman find the time to write? But she does and you'll love her newest title, The Lake House.
Email Marci Nault, welcome her to the book club, (she answers all of her mail) and your email will enter you in a drawing for one of five copies of The Lake House. Send your email to Marci at: [email protected]
Take it away Marci Nault...
I'm so honored and grateful to Dear Reader for asking me to guest post today. I admire what Suzanne has created, for anyone who champions the written word is a hero to those who write them.
Finding Home
I grew up in a small house in New England surrounded by woods. The home had been constructed on a concrete slab and it had more problems than structural qualities, yet for many children in the neighborhood it was the place to gather.
Hot summer nights were spent tucked into a tent in the yard with my girlfriends, our heads outside the door to watch for shooting stars as the fireflies sparkled their magic around us. In the morning my mother made pancakes and we drenched them in my grandfather's homemade maple syrup. Lazy days were spent floating in the cool lake down the street as we dreamt of bigger places and adventures.
In adulthood, I felt confined by my surroundings. I needed to know the world on my own terms, to step out of my comfort to find out who I was without preconceived ideas. I moved to California in my late twenties and for the first five years felt more out of place than right, but I wasn't ready to return. Determined to know the world better, I set out to explore. I've now danced at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, flown a hang glider over the Rocky Mountains, and rafted the biggest rivers of the world. I've kissed men on the banks of the Seine and in the Tuscan hills. I've been welcomed into each culture by locals and felt part of families I'd just met.
I have a beautiful house in California where I can ski in Tahoe or drink wines in Napa Vineyards with close friends. It's a dream life that I'm humbled to experience, but something always feels slightly uncomfortable.
I don't realize how desperate my heart is for that sweet resting place until I fly over New England on my way to Boston. "Home," whispers in my heart as I drive along Storrow Drive flashing past the famous Citgo sign, the city skyline, the Charles River, and Harvard University.
Then I'm home, not to the address of my childhood, but to the house my grandfather built in the fifties. Here the decorations haven't changed: the ugly little pot I made for my grandmother's sixtieth birthday, the old Reader's Digest Hardcovers, and pictures of my nine cousins and their families.
I don't know if it's the place or the sanctuary of familiarity, I just know that though I love exploring the world, it's with my actual family and where I grew up that will always be the home of my heart. And when I write, it's New England, the place I once needed to escape, that calls to me the deepest.
--Marci Nault
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