Category Archives: NJ Shore
The month of May on the beaches of New Jersey represents that weird shoulder season between early (aka cold) spring and summer. The combination of unpredictable weather, where one day is beach weather and the next is the second coming of winter with a thunder storm settled in between, and the inconvenience of the compulsory…
I have this clear memory of being on vacation and reading the original Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie to my boys in the sticky afternoons of the Florida heat while they drifted off to nap. That moment feels like a lifetime ago. And as the boys heard the stories, battled the pirates, and dressed as…
I remember growing up, having a pool, and swimming for hours on end. Or going to the beach all day and jumping in the pool when we got home. Swimming until our fingers and toes wrinkled, spending summer days creating and performing synchronized swimming routines with my sister after we were inspired by the Olympics,…
. . . I stumbled upon you and gratefully basked in your rays . . . Summer will always be my favorite season and when you live full time near the shore, September is definitely still a part of summer. Now, being just a few days short of October and being pestered by a few…
Eighteen summers. There was an article floating around this summer posted to many moms’ Facebook pages that reminded moms and dads that the summers we have with our children don’t last forever. Inside of that, there’s something magical in those first summers of parenthood, seeing the excitement in the eyes of your child who is…
