“Have good self-discipline, Gregory,” my physician-dad frequently reminded me during my Monmouth Beach youth. “There is very little it can’t overcome.” Dad proudly heralded...

When it comes to ranking American states on their happiness, we New Jersey residents are not doing too well. The latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index,...

Among my father’s missed investment opportunities — and he told me there were plenty — was the chance to buy more property in Monmouth...

During my parent’s years in Monmouth Beach they raised eight children. As a parent of only two, I don’t know how they did it....

Talk about your tough times. This is a story about how my physician-father overcame a serious illness — one that nearly wrecked his medical...

More lessons from my Monmouth Beach father … If ever there was a guy who needed to embrace resilience, it was my father. When...

“More Americans than ever before are stressed, depressed and anxiety-ridden,” according to a new study in the journal Psychiatric Services. No surprise. There’s a...

Cancer, you could say, runs in my family. It took my mother at age 61. My brother (58) and sister (64) are currently battling...

My father Dr. Charles Kelly lived in Monmouth Beach for five decades. Growing up in a physician’s home I learned firsthand the  medical profession’s...