My early days at Monmouth College were potentially very gloomy times. By 1981 my home life was a bit rough. I’d lost two young...

My father was a big fan of movies. He believed that goof cinema helped him relax from his work as a busy physician. He...

60 years ago … While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice...

Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-father. Life transforming and medically heroic at their best; clean and caring at a minimum. He spent the...

My physician-father called him a “true genius.” Dad also said that the two men practiced medicine together in Red Bank, NJ for the better...

It’s been more than 50 years since the death of my older sister, Alice Ward Kelly, R.N. She would be a senior citizen now...

A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...

Every now and again when I felling a bit down, I’ll break out one of my family’s old home movies. I’ve learned that you...

Some 80 Christmas seasons ago — with war raging around the globe — a mother sat down and wrote a simple but powerful letter...

In today’s challenging times it’s uplifting to reflect on how two different men found a friendship. In following my dad’s medical career I learned...

$1,000 invested in 1965 = $33 million in 2025. My late friend and former neighbor in Monmouth Beach, James J. Maguire, worked on Wall...

☘️  A superb Irish gal leaves us on St. Patrick’s Day … Sheila Marie (Kelly) Sharemet — strong in mind, body and soul —...

13 years ago this month … It’s been more than a decade since the Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright area felt the...

When my father was in his late 40s he ran for a seat on the Monmouth Beach School Board of Education. As if he...

During his prime years as a practicing physician, my father served on our local bank’s Advisory Board (the Monmouth Beach bank has had several...

His great-great grandfather lived here — Abraham Lincoln — America’s greatest President* — had Monmouth County family roots. According to A. Lincoln, a very...