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Video - Wind Beneath My Wings

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

March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. It happens every year. The wind is blowing 40 miles an hour outside. It’s west Texas windy today, and even the birds aren’t flying. They’re all in their swaying nests thinking, “Da’yam! Grab the babies! I need to pee and fly and sing...what the HELL?!” For me, it’s not that ‘the answer,...

It was a sunny, windy, cold (cool by northern stands) day for walking the beach today. The wind was out of the north at 15 to 20 mph; the 4 or 5 clusters of sea gulls had their beaks into the wind (who wants their tail feathers ruffled?). It was low tide which is the perfect time for walking since there is a wide expanse of sand, hard packed and fairly level. Being winter here in Florida, there...

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...

As winter sinks its fangs in deep, and snow and slush bank the roads up here in the northern U.S., it's nice to think back to the Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee and the wind in our faces! www.runningwithstilettos.com

(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...