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...

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...

My siblings sometimes tell me that I tend to over-glorify my physician-dad and his life. Perhaps … but I’m a storyteller and my father...

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...

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...