• Why Your Social Calendar Fills Up After You Move to Florida,Joey Larsen

    Why Your Social Calendar Fills Up After You Move to Florida

    What if the fear of feeling isolated is exactly backwards? It is the quiet worry almost nobody says out loud. You are dreaming about the move, the weather, the beach, and then a small voice asks, but what about our friends? Our people? Our whole life is here. It is a real fear, and it stops a lot of

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  • Learning to Love the Afternoon Storm in Northeast Florida,Joey Larsen

    Learning to Love the Afternoon Storm in Northeast Florida

    Ever wonder what a Florida summer afternoon actually feels like? It usually starts around three. The morning was bright and wide open, the kind of blue that makes you forget you ever lived somewhere gray. Then the clouds stack up over the west, tall and silver-white, and the air goes still. You feel

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  • 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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