Category: Parenting

  • “That’s My Daddy” from 4 to 40

    by Kelly Salasin “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” A four-year old girl stands with a tiny suitcase in hand as a passenger ferry pulls into dock. When she spies her father on the second-story deck, she jumps up and down, shouting, “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” Surprisingly, that little girl is me (almost…

  • Summer at the Jersey Shore

    In my hometown of the “Wildwoods,” Memorial Day Weekend KICKS down the door to summer in a single thrust. The population of this barrier island off the southern coast of New Jersey swells from 5,600 to 250,000 in a single weekend as summer homeowners and weekend vacationers literally POUR onto the shore over three waterway…