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The 2024 Fall Festival in Ocean City,NJ  will take place this Saturday October 12th starting at 9:30 am. This annual event is a great time to breath in some salt air while walking along Asbury [...]

Staying relevant is important to me. However, lately it has become a bit more challenging. My footprints are evident in three generations. I mosey in my senior citizen status. As a mother, I [...]

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 [...]

Beginning As a writer, I know what is in my head and what I want to empty out. But, I never know for certain where my messages will land. I can watch my words expand on my computer screen. [...]

Each morning, the various shells gather on the shoreline. How do they decide how to line up? Some of them wash up small and broken. While others roll in with full colorful displays. Once [...]

One shell supported another. The bigger shell lifted up the smaller and they fused together as one. United, they faced the force of the waves.  Ocean Whisper: When my knees start to buckle, I [...]

On some mornings, the sand feels firm under my feet. On other days, it squishes and collects between my toes. Once, I sank in the granular goop up to my ankles. Since I never know what the day [...]

You can call it indecisive. But I call it thoughtful. When faced with a decision, I try to see all angles. First I am on one side. And then I shift to the other. I go back and forth and the lines [...]

The two hinged sides of the small bivalve rested in an open position on the sand. Connected by a moist ligament, her identical shells faced one another. Even though her tenant vacated its home, [...]

The small speck tucked inside the pure, white shell reminded me of the early stages of my confidence. My little voice began as a tiny seed in my head. Years of life experiences nourished it and [...]