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| | Where everybody knows your name
09/24/2008
It didn’t take long once I’d stepped inside the walls of the building that has stood the test of time to figure out the nearly historical structure (built in the 1920s) is North Bergen County’s very own “Cheers.”
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| | Time flies when you're having fun
09/10/2008
Having acclimated to the shock that we are now in September, I've learned I'm not the only one wondering what happened to summer.
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| | A penny and a promise
08/27/2008
After boarding the Red and Tan Lines on Kinderkamack Road, I spent the next 30 minutes being jostled and jolted while the behemoth bus snaked its way through the Pascack Valley to the Lincoln Tunnel.
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 | Into the woods
08/13/2008
As fate would have it, I found myself wooed by the lush green bush and brush at the entrance to the walkway to the Montvale Environmental Learning Center to see what I could see.
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| | Listening about town
07/23/2008
Sometimes I get so caught up living life on the run that I forget my own agenda. Usually, the pulse beat from absorbing the here and the now is my reward, though life on the run isn't always a good thing.
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| | The family genes
07/09/2008
Paring down my possessions usually presents the overwhelming challenge of what to keep and what to toss. I don't know if it's because I inherited the "impossible to throw things out" gene or it's the old adage like mother, like daughter.
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| | The best things in life are free
06/25/2008
When sitting on a sunny bench in Closter the other day waiting for a repair on my Jeep, the American Proverb, “The best things in life are free,” came to mind.
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| | A celebration of silent strength
06/11/2008
Though it boggles my mind that it's June already, this month has started out exactly the way Hallmark advertising depicts it will.
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| | Preventive measures save lives
05/28/2008
It was time to leave for a commitment I'd made, but two music industry icons were on Oprah; Tina Turner, 68 and Cher, 62, and I found it hard to tear myself from the television screen.
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| | Magnanimous might
05/14/2008
Within moments of confirming my get together with my friend, Gianna to catch up on gossip and girl talk, I read my e-mail from Bookends that Maria Shriver was slated for a book signing for her new book.
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| | Prancing down a primrose path
04/23/2008
At first, I thought my unreserved mirthfulness was just from the release of being wrapped up, cooped up, covered up and sometimes even laid up over the winter months.
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 | Much ado about a scampering squirrel
04/09/2008
It was just before the rush hour snail trail of cars that converges on Grand Avenue every afternoon when I exited the Montvale Post Office, happy to have my mail deposited.
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 | A day to remember
03/26/2008
March 10, the Junior Women’s Club of Ridgewood and Bookends Bookstore, sponsored an author luncheon and benefit at Seasons Restaurant featuring Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times best-selling author, to launch her next bestseller, “Change of Heart.”
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| | Seven more tomorrows
03/12/2008
Like the precocious 11-year-old orphan belting out the tune in the musical, Annie, based on the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, Annie sings, “Tomorrow, tomorrow, … is just a day away,” we too are no doubt belting out our own tun
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| | Oh dear, I dropped a stitch
02/13/2008
What made me think I could just pick up an unfinished knitting project that has languished in my knitting satchel for years and years?
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 | Blue skies ahead
01/23/2008
Who would think that simply going out for brunch would turn out to be such an exhilarating jaunt?
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