• Dune grass with a building beyond in St. Augustine, FL

    A Slow New Year's Week on the First Coast

    What Does a Slow New Year's Week Look Like on the First Coast? The holiday noise has finally died down. The wrapping paper is gone, the guests have headed home and the house is quiet in a way that feels earned. You walk outside in the cool of the morning and there is nowhere you have to be. This is

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  • Gray home with a big porch in the Abbott Tract, St. Augustine, FL

    Christmas in Florida: Warm-Weather Holiday Traditions

    What Is Christmas Like in Northeast Florida? Somewhere in your memory there is a Christmas with frost on the windows and boots lined up by the door. Now picture this one: you are standing in the driveway in a light sweater, stringing lights around a palm tree while your neighbor does the same across

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  • Oak trunk and branches in Jacksonville, FL

    An Errand Day in a Master-Planned Community

    What Does an Errand Day Look Like in a Master-Planned Community? It is nine in the morning and you have a short list: groceries, a prescription, a package to mail, and a coffee that has nothing to do with the list at all. Back home, that would be an hour of driving and a lot of parking lots. Picture

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