A Letter from the Editor

The Notes app on my iPhone is my most used. I open it daily, throwing in there quotes from my current read (“Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421” by T.J. Newman – captivating!) or from my Peloton instructors during my workouts; funny things my kids say; article ideas for the pages of BC The Mag; and so much more.

While adding another note to my never-ending Notes app on my birthday, my eye caught one: “Have you ever clapped for yourself? You clap for everyone else, baby.”

Reading those words transported me back to my strength workout with Peloton instructor Rebecca Kennedy. It’s been quite some time since I took that class, according to my Notes app, however, I remember answering out loud to no one but myself, “No.”

No, I haven’t clapped for myself. No, I don’t clap for myself. Why don’t I clap for myself?

What a realization to have! And, I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s had it.

Maybe we don’t clap for ourselves because we tend to focus on all that we didn’t complete? The goals we haven’t yet reached?

Despite not clapping for myself, I do clap for everyone else. I clap for everyone else loudly, obnoxiously.

So, on my birthday I decided: This year, and all those that follow, I’m clapping for myself. I’m clapping for myself now, and I’m clapping for all the different versions of myself I’ve been throughout the years because you can be more than one kind of person in your life, and they all deserve a clap. The tiny details are just as important as the main event.

Clapping for you from the back, JeSSiCa huMphrey-Cintineo

SuMMer 2023

Publishers

Sharon & Steven Goldstein

Associate Publisher Brandon Goldstein

Editorial Director

Jessica Humphrey-Cintineo

Art Director

BMG Marketing

Fashion Director

Candace Kristin

Contributing Writers

Sheila M. Clancy MS, CHES

Tara DeLorenzo

Courtney Gilroy

Michael L. Gross MD

Soneca Guadara

Megan Montemarano

Richard Posluszny

Kimberly Redmond

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