Pressing Releases

I have arrived…on Substack! For those of you wondering, this is my maiden name - stay tuned for that blog coming soon.

Look Up Once in a While When I was that idealistic 20-something (disclaimer: I still have quite a bit of idealistic thought, and no, I don’t think that’s a bad thing), it was full steam ahead as I launched my career as a journalist - no one was going to stop me in my path that I had designed.

Look what I found on the shelf at .cafe in Asbury Park. Gee, I wonder how that got there.😊 “Live It” is a new book that features 31 authors who share their stories, while giving space for others to do the same. I’ve edited the book and contributed one chapter, Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe…Finding the Words in the Face of Challenge.

Proud to be part of something that is much more than a project - it’s an evolution, an evolution that happens when a group of people with different backgrounds, talents and ideas are brought together to share their stories. Woven together with a collective purpose, “Live It” is a compilation book that doesn’t preach or judge - rather, through powerful storytelling it opens space for you to do the same.

Wondering how 31 authors accomplished this? Learn more how Jodi Grinwald, CPC, ELI-MP first discovered the impetus and then rallied this group stretching from California to New Jersey to Uganda and then pre-order your own copy at Barnes & Noble, Walmart. The book will be available on January 20!

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To my friends in Monmouth County, NJ, please share widely.

I wrote this blog two years ago today, which was yet another beautiful sunny morning, maybe a reminder that the memory of the many lives lost should not be forgotten. Let's use today to be the time we come closer together and not let the hateful rhetoric widen the gap even more.

“…Aidan is also the reason why I was no longer in New York City on September 11, 2001. I left my job at Reuters in downtown Manhattan where I wrote about natural gas and electricity, along with my colleagues and friends I rode the ferry with every morning and evening, a year earlier when he was born. I kind of hate the trite saying, things happen for a reason, but maybe sometimes they do…”

Reflection: You Should Try It Today is one of those days—maybe the most poignant example of this—that solicits such a wide range of emotions. Of course, I am not even going to pretend to know all of them. As one friend so thoughtfully put this morning (yes, this friend has a habit of doing that, and yes, she is an English te...