In My Mind, I'M Still on the Beach
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By PETERBOROUGH  AT THIS time of year when all seems doom and gloom, I reminisce about happier times when, as a child growing up, one could find happiness on a beach in Cornwall.   There is a beach at Marazion where my father would take me crabbing as a boy.
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By DAVID JEFFS  FAMILY holidays in Woolacombe as a child always bring to mind two words - wet and windy!   Many a week I shivered behind a windbreak on the beach as rain bucketed down.
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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The beaches of the east coast&#39;s barrier islands seemed as calm as they could be on Monday. Just one day after Hurricane Frances wobbled through, only
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Winds strong enough to fling 40-foot-long metal shipping containers down the beach like cardboard boxes. Darkness 16 hours a day. Average temperatures that flirt with freezing.
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A day out at the beach for the shaggy scribes this week... swiftly followed by a visit to the emergency vet! Fawks' blog  We went to the beach on Sunday and had great fun - there is so much water, it's much better than the river.
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
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By Angie Toole, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun.
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Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water &#151; and sprinkled with glass.
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But you still haven't missed your chance.
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Over the holidays I decided to have some minor surgery that I'd been putting off for a while. I intended to keep the whole thing private (you'll read why in a minute) and I planned to be back at work just in time for the Iowa caucuses. Well, as the saying goes: "We plan, God laughs;" and I guarantee He's still laughing over what happened to me next.
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By Joyce Owen, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb.
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By Sean Boone, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Jun. 16--Five a.m. comes pretty abruptly on a weekend morning; at least for me anyway.
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Author secures place on shortlist with On Chesil Beach.
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I apologize for the neglect that I've had for this site these past two days. I've been a bit preoccupied with moving my entire life from one place to another (from an apartment to a house) - mostly by myself.
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By Dusty Ricketts, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 11--NAVARRE BEACH -- A legal dispute over land and money continues to delay the start of construction on the largest development to come to this barrier island.