Slow travel. Eat local.
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Apr
Newark, NJ has more cherry blossoms than Washington, DC! Here’s all the info for a visit in April to Branch Brook Park to see the Newark Cherry Blossoms. “Hi my name is Alfonso and I’ll be your server today. “ Alfonso greeted us at Top’s Diner in Newark with an unexpectedly chipper ‘hello.’ He […]
27
May
Grounds for Sculpture Combine a 42-acre outdoor park and garden with whimsical and larger-than-life sculptures, and you get New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture. I’d heard about it and wanted to visit for awhile. And I loved it more than thought I would! It is a magical place where art and nature are always at play. […]
7
May
“Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes and I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again…” ~Billy Joel Do you travel for love? I wasn’t looking for love and yet I traveled completely around the world and found it…right where I started. For someone who was meeting strangers and new people every day, why […]
3
Jun
Today I went for a run in New York City. I am back for one of my many visits. This city gets me every time; one way or another it gets me. Do you know what I mean? As I ran through the brownstone-lined, charming side streets in Chelsea, I couldn’t help but get all […]
12
Jul
Thanks to the ‘train wreck’ known as MTV’s “Jersey Shore”, more than ever, I continue my mission to change misconceptions about my home state of New Jersey, dammit. In the past, I have written about my quiet hometown, the bedroom community of Randolph and waxed poetic about some of the other wonderful traits of the […]
3
Mar
Wintertime in New Jersey. This year, there seemed to be a crazy amount of snow. But how would I know? It’s not like I’ve spent any winters in New Jersey for twenty years and I’ve been out of the country for three years. So who am I to talk? But, either way, there seemed to […]
2
Feb
Recently my step-sis, Beth, and I were doing what a lot of people in New Jersey spend a lot of time doing: driving. It was late one night and we were returning from dinner and heading north on the infamous New Jersey Turnpike. We were near Newark — New Jersey’s largest city and a bastion […]
28
Oct
Often when non-locals think of New Jersey, they think Sopranos, they think strip malls, they think of one big suburb of New York City and in some cases they’d be right. But there is much more to the Garden State than meets the uninitiated eye. Just scratch a tiny bit beneath the surface and you […]
15
Sep
Does anyone dispute that walking is good for you? It’s good for the heart. It’s easy on the joints. It helps clear the mind. And it gets you out into a new or old neighborhood allowing you to soak in the sights, sounds, and smells that you would most likely miss from a car. While […]
1
Jul
While I was home in New Jersey living once again with my dad and his new wife in my old childhood house, I helped them sort through 36 years worth of stuff (dare I say crap?) before they sell the house and possibly move to a lovely over fifty-five community where the grass is always […]
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