CONTACT: BETH O’BRIEN (609) 921-8888, info@seniorcareministry.org Celebrating 30 years of community service, the Senior Care Ministry of Princeton is hosting a “Taste of Italy” on November 5, 2015, 6 to 9 pm, at the Tre Piani Restaurant in Forrestal Village. Guests will enjoy Italian wines and regional delicacies as well as a Silent Auction of […]
By Jennifer Cross, Princeton Leadership Services It’s time to stop ignoring the hard things and face our challenges to position our organizations for future success. According to a May 2015 Gallup Poll, the percentage of U.S. workers engaged in their jobs was a mere 31.7 percent. One major negative influencer of employee engagement and organizational […]
Pennington design firm wins two prestigious national awards Pennington, NJ—July 13, 2015—The Pennington design firm Zoe Graphics has received a 2015 Gold Aster Award and a 2015 Merit Award for its work on the 2014 Annual Community Report for St. Francis Medical Center. The Gold Aster Award from Marketing Healthcare Today recognizes the nation’s most […]
Peg Callihan, placesandplatypie.com Ahh, El Paso, where Marty Robbins1 still sings his hit song of the same name from cheap souvenir and pawn shops, skin tight clothing stores and billboards across the city; and Don Haskins2 is memorialized in a mosaic mural on the wall of parking garage. It is here that virgins, cowboys and Jesus […]
Peg Callihan, placesandplatypie.com I am a birdwatcher, not a “birder.” I like to watch them and draw them, not count them. I will never have a Big Year.1 By the time I was 19, I was already out there – binoculars around my neck, walking the parks and nearby marshes looking for birds. It provided a calming […]
Peg Callihan, placesandplatypie.com Once again my sweet tooth answers the call The desert in Big Bend Country can still be remarkably cold in the spring. Temperatures below freezing from late afternoon one day until late morning the next. Beautiful hoar frost covering everything. What do we do with no electrical hook-up or cell towers nearby? Test […]
Guest Blogger, Sarah Vanderschaff, The Educated Mom Parents such as Jean and John Gianacaci are examples to many of us in how to love a child. They lost their daughter, Christine Gianacaci, in January 2010, when an earthquake destroyed the hotel she and fellow students from Lynn University were staying in the country of Haiti. […]
Guest blogger, Cheryl Cvetan, Owner of A La Mode on the Road For 11 years, I owned A La Mode in West Trenton, a fashion boutique that evolved into A La Mode on the Road after Superstorm Sandy. I’ll never forget the feeling of devastation when I walked into the store after the storm and […]
As we gather up our families in holiday celebrations and wrap up another year (how did it happen so fast???!!) we thought we should look around at our amazing community full of moxie women and give a pat on the back to a few who have made such a positive impact on us all. We […]
In second grade, I had three favorite songs: “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” from The Sound of Music, “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston, and my school song. I’d rewind tapes over and over again, carefully committing the lyrics to memory. Through the music, I became Liesl, the kind of waifish girl that every cute […]