.Places to Go. Things to Do and Think About in South Jersey

Another person from my childhood just died and his cousin sent me a text. That makes four people who have died this month within the circle...

I am a huge fan of the ordinary. The way this interest manifexts itself has been in my lifelong interest and research into journals, diari...

A Classmate of mine from Merchantville High School, class of 1963, just e-mailed to tell me that an old friend had died. Tom Nicholas. Tom...

Just sitting on the porch after a delightful dog walk with a neighbor lady who walks with us every day. Also every day, after we drive our ...

Alice Munro just died in her 90's after a long and successful career in writing which was celebrated with the awarding of the Nobel Priz...

Just now, I finished reading an essay by journalist Tom Nichols in the Atlantic Daily, an e-mail daily news. The essay was moving, as you m...

Today, after Chair Yoga at The Station in Merchantville, I went downstaies to the cafe' area and saw the display that proprietor Nicole...

A member of my Quaker Meeting moved this week into a nursing home due to her steady decline in function. She has dementia and is in her mid...

A friend, an old high school classmate e-mailed me recently for help in coping with the loss of one of our clasmates. Romeo Ventura died la...

A New York Times article a few years back recommended that for your New Year's resolution, you make a habit to take note of those times ...

There is a lot going on in the local Art World and in my world in particular. My favorite Art Gallery has always been Eiland Arts Center at...

Just coming back from my Chair Yoga class and feeling particularly loose and comfortable in my skeleton as a result. A thread of texts fr...

Five Friends, three of them members of the Woodbury Friends Meeting, came together to open an Art Gallery on the grounds of the historic Woo...

The 43rd Annual Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Pow Wow is the Strawberry Moon Pow Wow. It will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 8th and 9th, 20...

On March 25, Gloria Steinem will be 90 years old. She has been an inspiration to me in so many many ways and now, she is an inspiration in ...

I don't know about you but I am a big fan of AARP magazine! Today, I read three articles and two were about two people who thought they...

It seems only fair to write about Irish literature on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. I am watching a series on Netrlix called The Rebell...

New Woodbury Museum Exhibit for Women's History Month A new Women's History Month exhibit at the Gloucester County Historical Socie...

My former mother-in-law, now long deceased, was a wonderful cook of traditional Polish food. She made her own pieroghi's, cabbage fille...

Personally, I have found it to be a lifelong practice and struggle to ward off depression. Here's an example - A week or so ago, I saw ...

This morning, I dropped off my Art Project for Women's History Month - it is called PENNANTS. It is 8 pennants with portraits, cameo ...

If you don't have it, I strongly recommend the PBS Passport which costs oly $60 for a year and offers an infinite set of shows, series i...

Gloucester County Historical Society a block down from our Meeting is exhibiting on African American Troops in the Civil War, so if you are ...

Well, it is the first month of my transition from vegetarian to mostly vegan. I say 'mostly' because I am not an absolutist and the...

Sometimes, especially if, as I am, you are a somewhat anxious person, you can get caught up in What's Wrong These Days! I was having a ...

Increasingly as the years go by, my resolutions tend to focus on health, generally in the "Do More Eat Less' category, but this yea...