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All four locations of Wiley’s Pharmacy’s gift stores are now carrying Ocean Whispers. I met with Steve Wiley, the co-owner of my neighborhood pharmacy this week. [...]

There will be a book signing of Ocean Whispers at Sun Rose Words & Music on 756 Asbury Ave. Ocean City, NJ on Thursday July 19, 2018 from 11am-1pm. This beautiful collection of local [...]

Sun Rose Words & Music in Ocean City, NJ invited me for a book signing of Ocean Whispers. This “quaint, old-fashioned shop” will host a book signing on Thursday July [...]

Guess what? The release of Ocean Whispers is finally here! My second book, based on last year’s Daily Shell posts, is now a  hardback edition. There are 42 color shell pictures on the [...]

Hey friends, get ready, Ocean Whispers is coming your way! Soon it will be the unofficial start of summer. Memorial Day is right around the corner! Slather on the sunscreen, slip into your [...]

One Christmas I decided that I needed to really get into the spirit and play Santa. I cobbled together the best costume possible with the meager resources at hand. Then I made my sisters play [...]

As a child, we ate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day feasts in our dining room. Mom loved to keep the tradition alive of serving a flaming fruit cake on Christmas Eve. I personally did not like the [...]

Two special treats appeared at Christmastime when I was a child. One was clementines.  Today the smell of that little citrus gem immediately takes me back to the one that was always in the toe of [...]

My parents bought our home in Ames, New York in 1951. A year later, I arrived and joined my sister. By 1955, we were a family of six. I have called it my home ever since. At Christmastime my [...]

My mother’s brother and his family lived in Germany. Every Christmas we waited for a big wooden crate to arrive from Europe packed with beautiful gifts and German treats. One year, he sent [...]