Journaling, puzzles, and hunting shark teeth gave me everything the meditation books promised. Then something surprising happened when I sat back down to try the real thing.

My family finds over a thousand shark teeth in a single beach week. Here's when we look, where we look, and the pilot's trick that made me better at it.

The first time I wrote about everyday magic, and the Topsail Island afternoon that proved I'd been asking the universe for too little.