Irene Goodnight, Irene Goodnight, Goodnight Irene!

Goodnight is right!!! Oh dear God, hurricane fever has been here for days and NOW, Irene is almost here. It all started for me on Thursday. Peter arrived late in the afternoon and I was still at the Tea Room finishing up and we decided to go to the store and pick up a few [...]

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A Thank You Goes Out in Cyberspace

You know there are a lot of people who complain that we have become a society of keyboard krazies, communicating only thru email, texting in 3 letter abbreviations, sending emoticons to let another person know whether we’re  happy or sad.  There’s some truth to that BUT, on the other hand, the internet has opened up [...]

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I Left My Heart in Row B

I expected to be thrilled, impressed and entertained last Saturday night;  We went to see and hear Tony Bennett in concert in the Great Auditorium.  I didn’t expect to cry… The show opened with Tony’s daughter, Antonia, who sang several songs to warm up the audience.  This audience did not need warming up.  The auditorium [...]

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Happy Birthday America Jersey Shore Style

I thought about the title of this blog…I wonder how many people will pick up on it because of the words Jersey Shore?  It conjures up images of Snookie, The Situation, Windmill hot dogs and a Jerseylicious look!  Ocean Grove couldn’t be further from those images and here we are in the heart of the [...]

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Fourth of July Parade on the 2nd? Yes in Ocean Grove

Today turned out to be one early summer’s all time great sunny and not too humid days!  What a day for a parade!  And so Ocean Grove, known as God‘s Square Mile at the Jersey Shore held their annual Fourth of July parade.   Very small town and just the kind of parade I love for [...]

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10 Teenage Angst Songs From the 60′s and then some!

Thursday’s Top Ten I was driving around at the Jersey Shore and discovered a wonderful Oldies radio station, 1410 AM.  Apparently the love songs from my high school days are indelibly printed in my memory bank because although I can’t tell you what I had for dinner two nights ago, I can remember all the [...]

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SSSSssss Snow – Saucers – Central Park

SSSsssss, well it may be a stretch but I just thought that the S sound was a twisty title for this blog post. And how apropos since there seems to be snow in the forecast every couple of days.  Either it’s impending or we’re told about storms forming in the Gulf or Canada or wherever [...]

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Sea Gulls and Brant Geese on Christmas Day

When you were opening up your presents or stuffing the turkey or setting the table for Christmas dinner,  the birds of the beach were very busy celebrating in their own way.  Luckily for us, Murray went straight to the shore line when he arrived from NYC for Christmas dinner in Ocean Grove. photo by Murray [...]

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Stretching the Season on a Sunny Sunday in October

The angle of the sun has changed and the shadows at 1:00 in the afternoon are longer than they have been all summer.  The life guards have gone back to college, the dogs are back on the beach frolicking and chasing each other or balls or waves.  People are riding their bicycles on the once [...]

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The UMBRELLAS of OCEAN GROVE

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