When Mother Nature exhales a warm mouthful of air, Scott Johnson grabs hold. He adjusts the sail on his windsurfer and, with a flap and a rustle, he captures the breeze and slices across the lake. For ...

For years in the early 1990s, a colleague at The News-Press tried to convince me to take up windsurfing. He'd come into the office on a Monday after a windy weekend and say, "Dude, you gotta learn to ...