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I’m so distracted. Gorgeous days, warm nights and the beach practically outside my window make it harder and harder to get started with my day’s chores. I make my list and check off so little by day’s end. Where does the day go? I wake up earlier and earlier because I don’t want to miss a minute of each day. I need to spend more time on the beach. I’ve been working too much and I’m feeling the effects. After analyzing my past few days, I’ve noticed that I could be much more efficient with my time. If I plan my day with my natural rhythm, I’ll be able to finish each day’s work. First thing I do is make a list. I list the items by priority. Then, I group them by location. I prefer to do all my computer work in the morning. Email is read, articles are written and my design work is completed before noon. By then, I need to get out of the house so I schedule my appointments for afternoons. My favorite time of the day at the beach is after 4 PM. So, I will schedule that in. Any work that still needs to be completed can be done after dinner. Write down what needs to be done each day. Prioritize the list Group items Check off finished chores Lisa Ball Relax
Every now and then, I feel down. Mostly on rainy days but sadness can find you any day of the week, rain or shine. What makes us sad? For me, it is when I feel forgotten. My friends tell me their problems but don’t often ask me how I feel. They wrap themselves in drama and tell me all about it. I try to keep my life drama free and as a result, I’m happier. So, for me to constantly listen to another person’s problems I need to muster a lot of energy and sheer will not to be sucked in to their tunnel of woe. Everyone knows that misery like company. I prefer to rest on a cloud of gratitude, instead. Care to share my cloud with me? There is always room for one more with hope. Lisa Ball
A Crappie Story
One of my son’s favorite moments of the school week in second grade was “Share and Tell” on Monday mornings. One early June weekend, Bryan, his uncle Ralph and his dad had gone fishing. Bryan was thrilled; they had caught three crappie fish. He proudly told his story to his classmates. They listened with rapt attention until the name of the fish was mentioned. After the laughter subsided, his teacher announced that Bryan had detention that day.
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Bryan came out of school, weeping. He explained what had happened. The following morning, furious, I visited with his teacher after the pledge of allegiance had been recited. I definitively let her know that “crappie” was not a bad word. I also let her know that an adult’s ignorance should never hurt a child--in school or anywhere else. The following day, Bryan came home from school happy. His teacher had apologized to the class...and every child was given an individual bag of Sweedish Fish. judy horowitz
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Charm and charisma is what you are all about! You can do no wrong. Remember March 21 - April 19 to pamper your feet this month!
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Being cool and staying cool is Taurus this month. Your good deeds are coming back full circle - It’s all about good karma!
Now that another birthday is past, you’re smarter and better than you were last year! Treat people with respect and love Gemini May 21 - June 20 yourself; you are so special to so many people! Lucky number is 8.
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June 21 - July 22
Leo
July 23 - Aug 22
Virgo
Aug 23 - Sept 22
Libra
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Birthday wishes! Realize how much your family needs and loves you. Don’t be selfdestructive. Your lucky color is blue and spend a dollar on the lottery. LUCK is on your side! Your smile will get you anything you want this month. You have a way of making people love to be around you! Lucky number is 4 and 9. Summer fun and a new relationship are in the cards. Keep your eyes open; that special someone is out there and maybe right in front of you. The 19th is a special day! Someone out of state is looking for you. Check your messages and social network you’re in for a real surprise! Wearing green will bring you money!
Scorpio
Take time to smell the roses, but watch out for poison ivy! Romance is in the air--buy that special someone some flowers! Pink is your color this month!
Sagittarius
Think positive! If you can imagine it, it will happen! Imagine a bigger bank account and by the end of the summer it will happen!
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Although friends seem far away and family is getting on your nerves-take a deep breath. The sun is on its way and things will turn out wonderfully! The 22nd is a great day! Being supportive is always a good thing, but pay some attention to yourself too! Go buy that summer hat or cool flip-flips; you deserve it!
Slot machines, bingo, blackjack whatever Feb 19 - March 20 your game is- play it this month!! I see your wallet bursting at the seams! Lucky color is RED!
Being from Toms River, I pretty much kept to Seaside Heights and Island Beach State Park on those hot summer days and crazy summer nights of my youth. Beautiful beaches, captivating sunsets, salty sea air, cute shops, local artists and people everywhere and the reason for my existence... FRESH SEAFOOD! Okay, you got me. I’m a foodie! Buttery Lobster, seared scallops, fresh fish, creamy calamari, mussels in marinara, oyster shooters, shrimp cocktail and my absolute to die for--Barnegat Bay Clams!!! I can eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner-and I have. No, I’m not lying. Oh, and let’s not forget the midnight snack with a Piña Colada. Don’t even try to tell me you don’t know what I’m talking about. How about raw clams on the half shell with a drop of hot sauce. Wait--I know, you like a squeeze of lemon! Let’s see, steamed on the Bar-B; now we’re talking. MY favorite since you’re asking, is cooked in garlic, butter, parsley and more garlic-served with toasty bread...wait, make that toasty garlic bread. You know where I’m going, right? Soaking up that delicious broth with it-- Oh My God! Or for you facebook people, OMG! Damn, I’m getting hungry! Then, there’s clam chowder -some of the best in the world right here at the Jersey Shore. Beautiful views, friendly people, fresh seafood and the feeling of summer on the Jersey Shore. Kim
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Say what? Happy as a Clam Why would clams be happy? It has been suggested that open clams give the appearance of smiling. The derivation is more likely to come from the fuller version of the phrase, now rarely heard - ‘as happy as a clam at high water’. High tide is when clams are free from the attentions of predators; surely, that is the happiest of times in the bivalve mollusc world.
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Batten Down the Hatches! “Hatch” is a word with multiple meanings. In this context, we refer to the opening in the deck of a ship. The hatch of a ship, more formally called hatchway, was once commonplace on sailing ships and were normally either open or covered with a wooden grating to allow for ventilation of the lower decks. When bad weather was imminent, the hatches were covered with tarpaulin and the covering was edged with wooden strips, known as battens, to prevent the tarp from blowing off. Not surprisingly, sailors called this “battening down’”
1 tube (12 ounces) refrigerated buttermilk biscuits ( I used Pillsbury Golden Layers Refrigerated Buttermilk Biscuits) ¼ cup canola oil 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (I did use the green can stuff) ½ teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes Instructions Roll each biscuit into a 12-in. rope and tie into a knot; tuck ends under. Place 2 in. apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. In a large bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; brush the warm knots with the mixture. Yield:10 knots.
Nourishing Thoughts Endings used to be excruciatingly difficult for me. Beginning something new--job, friendship, diet, school year-all held the potential for greatness. For decades, endings seemed anticlimactic; moments beset with vague regrets and misgivings. Remaining steadfast in one’s effort, mustering energy and relentless purposeful behaviors up until the final satisfying farewell following a goal reached, has always been the challenge.
An Unapologetic Voice Summer is upon us. Undeniable it is, in the sounds of birds that greet the day with predawn chant and flight. My garden, no longer frozen brown tundra, swells with fragrant flowers pruned with love alongside persistent disheveled weeds that long to grow, too. Just as we shed extraneous outerwear and a gentle breeze dances with my lace curtains by an open window, summer gently nudges us all to acknowledge that change is part of life. To let a life outgrown melt into fresh new waters. Now. I have just about completed a monumental task that began shortly after Hurricane Sandy. In fact, the storm catalyzed a task that weighed on my soul: letting go of a wardrobe that defined a body, a persona, and a lifestyle that no longer fit the individual I am becoming.
I had been avoiding facing a truth since I retired from public school teaching in July’2011. Most of the clothes and jewelry claiming space—and holding it hostage—belonged to another person, another life. Someone I no longer With maturity, tenacity and perseverance was—or wanted to be. Clothes that had defined me for decades were, in fact, outdated clutter--crowding the path I forge now. grow more important than a fresh, wrinkle-free beginning. Tenacity offers How does one let go of “yesterday”? Slowly. Tortuously. I learn in the silent a depth of knowledge and a level of mastery no superficial effort can match. dark times, that we hold onto the “outgrown” because we fear the void. Who are we, if we no longer hoard the clothes and the scarves and the baubles I have always been a September rose. As we’ve loved for decades? Who am I if a plastic name card no longer hangs around my neck? An almost empty closet, with space to redefine who I am— I prepare to celebrate my 65th birthday is who I am. Now. A day waiting to dawn, followed by another, is the moment in August, my tennis game is finally where I belong. Now. It is only possible to grow anew, if we accept that what the “dance” I’ve dreamed of—and was, is done. worked for—for decades. A devoted Weight Watcher since 1988, I have Preparing to greet my 65th birthday in two months, I refuse to grieve over finally learned that temptation is not synonymous with opportunity. Going on a body that just refuses to look the way I remember it once did. Continuing instead, to strengthen the one I live in now—and letting the people at the my first cruise with my husband of 37 years is a reward for years of learning the Ocean Club on Route 9 help me do that, is right. Real. I refuse to mourn behaviors I may miss from before that are irrelevant, as I cultivate new ones benefits of patience and restraint. with like-minded people who learn, anew,—rather than stay stuck in a script that has grown old. And cold. I am on my knees, planting annuals alongside of As the second year of my beloved B9 perennials I love—all the while, “dead-heading” and weeding. School comes to a close and a public school semester ends without me, I know Has Sandy taught me to build new castles on the sands that remain after much that to celebrate an ending, one must has been washed away by tides and time? Did nature’s fury of last fall help stay the course. And, every ending of me to surrender and build upon the sand of my own hourglass? Join me, as the something is a beginning of something first real tweet of the morning catapults me out of my chair and out the door! else. Judy Horowitz “We carve out the world with words; we sculpt our world with deeds.” Judy Horowitz www.senoraonline.com www.senoraonline.com
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