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A while back I wrote about the train tracks that cross Rte. 40, the highway leading from I-95 to A1A along the beach (http://growingbolder.com/blogs/uncategorized/sounds-in-the-night-673583.html). That same Rte. 40 is the road we travelled several times a month to visit Ormond Beach before we moved here permanently. After driving over those tracks you come to a bridge that spans the Halifax...

I found a bit of the Gulf Shore at the bottom of my bedroom closet today. Thanksgiving dinner for about a dozen at my house is looming, and so I've got a little less than two and a half weeks to straighten the place up and pull this off. This was the first day I'd dropped Lucky the pup off at "doggie day-care" for a few hours of uninterrupted housework. He's so enthusiastic about staying right...

(Readers' Note: This was written in the fall.) The stifling weather of Florida's summer has broken. The weather has become cool by our standards and the humidity has dropped off. Consequently, it was time again to resume my walks on the beach - and so I did today. I guess I need to explain what I mean when I say the beach, our beach. The beach actually spans to two cities - Ormond...

Labor Day weekend, 2011 is coming to an end. Labor Day always represents the closure of summer. Summer represents respite to me...days spent at the beach; travel to vacation destinations; a slackening of schedules and to-do lists. But Labor Day also commemorates our days of laboring. I'd like to share a laboring technique that doesn't feel quite so much like labor I'm sitting under a...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now attempting...