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Sunday, January 29, 2017

My Immigrant Family

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This is my grandmother on her 99th birthday... 17 years ago this week. She was born in Ferno, Italy, and died before she turned 100. My ot...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Is There Anybody Alive Out There?

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This blog does everything wrong. That’s the message I heard loud and clear as I sat through a webinar this past Thursday night: A succe...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

'Paterson': A Gem of a Way to Look at Life for 118 Minutes

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This is a character study, taking a look at one week in the life of a Paterson, New Jersey, poet and bus driver named Paterson (a nuanced ...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Poetry + Technology = Magic

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Mom and I at the scenic overlook in Allamuchy in October  Mom will turn 85 soon, one week earlier than Dad would have turned 85. The sa...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Down the Shore Everything's All Right...

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"The Shore" is the No. 1 reason people love New Jersey, according to NJ Monthly magazine's latest poll . I happened to be on...
Monday, December 19, 2016

To Read or Not to Read

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Don't Read This... Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by A.J. Hartley My rating: 3 of 5 stars In this book, a Shakespeare scholar (Hartley...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

In Praise of FDU Florham

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Fairleigh Dickinson, New Jersey's largest private university, has two sites in the state: the Metropolitan campus, along the Hackensac...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Sleepless in New Milford

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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron by Richard Cohen My rating: 3 of 5 stars Sleepless in New Milford, NJ In “She Made Me Laugh,” we...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Alexa and Me: A Love Story

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True confession: I love Alexa. So when I saw Amazon's second-generation Echo Dot advertised, I pre-ordered it right away. It arri...