In September of 2006, when we made our first ever visit to Brigantine, New Jersey on a barrier island just north of Atlantic City, a local resident recommended we eat at the Pirates Den restauran...
https://www.boomeresque.com/the-pirates-den-a-year-round-brigantine-new-jersey-restaurant-tradition/
I confess admit when I first learned New Jersey’s “official” nickname is the Garden State, I might have probably snickered — guffawed even. But, that was before we discovered the Brigant...
https://www.boomeresque.com/brigantine-new-jersey-flowers-in-the-garden-state/
I used to be one of those people who rolled their eyes when I heard New Jersey referred to as the Garden State. Really? New Jersey? Gardens? Growing up, my exposure to New Jersey was pretty much ...
https://www.boomeresque.com/gardens-in-new-jersey-the-garden-state/
This week, the Zentangle Diva, Laura Harms, challenged us to produce a tile using only straight lines — maybe a little ironic the week after Irish citizens voted by a large margin to amend the...
We’re just past the first day of fall and Mr. Excitement and I are spending our last weekend for the year at our beach house in Brigantine, New Jersey. Our Brigantine summer was somewhat squeez...
https://www.boomeresque.com/ode-to-a-brigantine-new-jersey-summer/
We raised our sons in a leafy green suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The houses had lawns, but no lawn ornaments, except for perhaps dueling candidate signs during elections. In the arc of m...
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My husband, Steve (a/k/a Mr. Excitement), and I are “empty nester” Baby Boomers. We’ve been together (as a couple) for 32 years, most of them with our noses to the proverbial grindstone �...
Although New Jersey is blessed with approximately 130 miles of wide, sandy ocean beaches, New Jersey is on the east coast of the United States, so its ocean beaches are generally not good places ...
In October of 2012, at our Center City Philadelphia apartment, Hurricane Sandy was almost a non-event for us. We had flashlights ready, canned food and bottled water, but while a cousin who lives...
https://www.boomeresque.com/another-victim-of-hurricane-sandy-moi/