My “Monmouth College” Path …
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...
A Jersey Shore Journal ...
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...
While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...
A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of my older sister, Alice Ward Kelly, R.N. She would be a senior citizen now...
It was about 80 Christmas seasons ago, with war raging around the globe, when a mother sat down and wrote a simple but powerful...
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...
When my father was in his late 40s he ran for a seat on the Monmouth Beach School Board of Education. As if he...
In today’s trouble times it’s uplifting to reflect on how two different men found a friendship. In following my dad’s medical career I learned...
It’s been more than a decade since the Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright area felt the awful wrath of Mother Nature. It...
Experts Predict “Extremely Active” Storm Season … Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong coastal residents know this. It’s understood that...
Seeking More Summertime … The summer before my father began his medical school studies — nearly 85 years ago — he was worked as...
I’m a product of the TV generation. I’ve watched a lot of television (though not nearly as much lately). And one of my usual...
Every year around this time I think about my late father-in-law, James F. Norton, Jr. Each summer he would make a sojourn from Monmouth...
There’s no question that earning a medical degree takes some smarts. My physician-dad from Monmouth Beach would tell me that the profession was “the...
From 1968 to 1975, during his prime as a practicing physician, my father served on our local bank’s Advisory Board (the Monmouth Beach bank...
The Masters Tournament — the crown jewel of professional golf — is played every April. I have very fond memories of this annual spring...