It’s been nearly 45 years since the death of my older sister, Alice Ward Kelly, R.N. And I thought I’d reminisce about her all...

Living near the water comes at a price. Wise lifelong shore residents know this. Indeed, water can be an emotional thing for us. The...

The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) just concluded its 97th season. The borough’s pubic beach club since the early 1920s (the land was once...

Exploring my physician-dad’s small medical book collection in Monmouth Beach one day, I found an oddly titled book, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...

The summer before my father began medical school, he was a lifeguard at a New York beach. Among his fellow guarding buddies were several...

My physician-father called him a “true genius.” Dad also said that the two men practiced medicine together in Red Bank, NJ for about 25...

In this day and age, it’s understandable for physicians to look for defenders of their good works. Too often now, the true measure of...

My father was a big fan of movies. He said they helped him relax from his work as a busy physician. He passed the...

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