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Apr.08.2013
Look no further than Palisades Park by Alan Brennert for a magical place to spend happy hours of reading. Eddie and Adele Stopka, parents of Toni and Jack, sell vinegar-soaked French fries near the thunder of the Cyclone roller coaster. Toni is enthralled with the divers who do daredevil stunts in...
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Aug.29.2012
The quote above from J.R.R. Tolkien resonated so much with me because I felt that it really spoke of my own process for writing my novel. My novel began with a description of a single character that I subsequently incorporated into a short story, which I shared ...
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Dec.10.2011
Click on funny NJ map to enlarge.
Jersey. No, not like the show The Jersey Shore. That bears no resemblance to the South Jersey existence I'm tethered to. Mine is the Jersey shore that's entering a long winter, where a handful of weathered locals sit at dimly lit bars,...
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Aug.25.2011
Stacy Conundrum, the FNN political reporter, filed this report from the capital building in Trenton, NJ
The independent Corruption Investigation Commission (CIC) has announced its findings after an exhaustive three-year investigation. The Commission could not identify any...
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Aug.15.2011
With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and all the media attention it is receiving, listen to surnames that make it to television, print and Internet media. You may hear a familiar surname in a story about the Civil War and find a link you can follow that will help you fill in your family tree...
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Jul.25.2011
Consider this sentence from Lola, California: "Confused, unable to practice her contrarian religion, seeking a tribe, Lana will therefore bed odd men: the underwear model whose career was sidelined when a car accident fractured his knee so that some strange bone sticks out like a knob from the...
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Jun.06.2011
LONDON JOURNAL, Part 1 by Kim Trotto September 13, 2010, 6:45 p.m., Newark Liberty Airport: Travel Day: My husband and I are on our way to England. Or the UK as the posh set would have it. Going there has been a longing of mine from way back. We’ve already been through the confusion of checking in...
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Apr.13.2011
Matty and Frankie were lovers, and my parents, and although I was the third of four children, conceived before the advent of the PILL, I was loved unconditionally. They were devoted parents, first generation Americans, born of Irish immigrants, and lived in Jersey City, then Roselle Park, New...
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Feb.08.2011
2011 Create Something Magical Conference March 19, 2011 Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel, Iselin, New Jersey featuring Keynote Speaker Mary Janice Davidson New York Times and USA Today best-selling and prolific writer who is published primarily in paranormal romance but also fantasy and non-...
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Oct.06.2010
There is a gradient of accent as one moves from New York outward through the suburbs. It’s a gradient that reflects an economic and educational gradient, as the more well-off search for their little havens further away from the sordid pulse of the city. The rich sneer and street snap of the New...
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