• Downshifting from a Big-City Career to First Coast Calm,Joey Larsen

    Downshifting from a Big-City Career to First Coast Calm

    What happens to a person when the city finally lets go of them? For years, the pace had its hooks in you. The commute, the calendar packed to the edges, the low hum of urgency that followed you home and sat down at dinner. You told yourself it was just how life was. Then you spend a morning on a qui

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  • What Independence Day Feels Like When You Live at the Beach,Joey Larsen

    What Independence Day Feels Like When You Live at the Beach

    What does the Fourth of July feel like when the beach is your backyard? You're standing at the water's edge just after sunrise, and the beach belongs entirely to you and a handful of others who couldn't sleep in either. The morning is already warm. The tide is coming in, and the sound of the surf ha

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  • What a Slow Coastal Morning Feels Like in Vilano Beach,Joey Larsen

    What a Slow Coastal Morning Feels Like in Vilano Beach

    What does it feel like to wake up somewhere that is in no hurry at all? The light comes up over the Atlantic first, the way it always does on this side of Florida, and Vilano Beach takes its time waking with it. A few early walkers are already on the sand. A pelican works the shallows. Across the in

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