"Play therapy is an opportunity offered to the child to experience growth under the most favorable circumstances,” according to Virginia Axline. But play therapy is not play alone. The child is given the opportunity to play out the accumulated feelings of tension, insecurity, aggression, fear, bewilderment, and confusion in a safe, therapeutic setting.
The surf temperature is in the low 80s. Catches of whiting and bluefish describe the past week’s activity in the surf and piers. In Ponce Inlet, there has been plenty of redfish activity and some tarpon have also been caught and released.
Barring cataclysms such as war nations, especially great nations, do not collapse overnight. Nations fall bit by painful bit, over many years, sometimes in such tiny slices that their own citizens do not realize what is happening around them. The Roman Empire’s fall took centuries. Europe collapsed between the years 1914-1945.
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Stan Escudero writes about Obama's failing economic stimulus policies in his latest blog, "The Guiepost."
Blackwater Music and Arts Festival Review Florida gets trash-talked a lot, especially by many of the teens and twenty-somethings who are who are living there. However, despite what the kids might say, Florida has some real gems and sparkling locales that are often overlooked or remain unknown. The Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park near Live Oak, FL is perhaps one of the greatest of these natural treasures and it is the site of numerous music festival ranging from large scale rock extravaganzas to small time folk and bluegrass jamborees. Its most recent
NSBNews.net videos by Henry Frederick / 14-year-old Kevin Michelbrink, Greg Geiselman and Alina Wiggins were all big winners in the second annual New Smyrna Beach Backwater Fishing Tournament held Saturday despite the heavy rainfall and strong winds that resulted in the rescheduling of the 13th annual Billfish Tournament to Oct. 18-19.
Like many of you, we lost power at 1:38 a.m. while continuing to work on NSBNews.net from our Sugar Mill home here in New Smyrna Beach. I'm typing this blog on my Mac Probook laptop with my AT&T card connecting me to the Internet.
New Smyrna Beach police Sgt. John Kosorok described it best earlier tonight when he tolds me, "It's nasty out there."
We're feeling the last major push of this storm moving up from Brevard County where residents of Titusville and Mims were hit pretty hard. Because of the weather situation, we've stopped uploading our stories and videos for the night.
We were working on our exclusive coverage of
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Pounding rain bands and wind gusts of up to 60 mph have forced people indoors where as many as 20,000 utility customers are without power countywide early this morning, including much of the New Smyrna Beach area., including much of the New Smyrna Beach area.
The storm that knocked out power to more than 20,000 utility customers Sunday throughout the coastal areas of Volusia County was replaced early Monday by clearing skies and seasonably warm temps. Power was restored in our home in Sugar Mill in New Smyrna Beach at 4:15 a.m. Monday after being knocked out just after midnight as was the case throughout the community.
Late this afternoon, I ventured into the community pool. Most of the people in our neck of the woods in the gated Sugar Mill are elderly and rarely use it. But I do. It's a beautiful, quiet place, surrounded by trees with birds, squirrels looking skyward and the occasional armadillo meandering below.
I enjoy listening to the whistling birds and the tranquility of being in the water. This gives me time to de-stress
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In this downtrodden economy, there are three major stories NSBNews.net is going to follow under the heading of "Show Me the Money." These stories will be presented as we develop them over the next several weeks and months as part of our commitment to in-depth reporting. The "Show Me the Money" segments will include "The American Music Festival Fiasco," "The Top 100 Public Salaries" and "New Smyrna Beach CRA Spending."
