“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...

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...

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...

For over 20 years of my life, our family of 10 lived in a large Tudor house about a quarter mile from the ocean...

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...

As someone who has lived in Monmouth Beach, I know you have to make an excellent income to live there in comfort. And living...

My daughter Lauren — smart, beautiful, and ambitious — earned her degree from Fordham University in the Bronx on May 19, 2018. A Monmouth Beach...

It was in October 1969 at the Monmouth Beach School when I first fell in love with the New York Mets. My fourth-grade teacher...