BEACH NOTES

"Occasional Book Review" - "March Violets" by Philip Kerr - from Ocean City, NJ   If you have read Alan Furst or David Downing, you enjoy World War II fiction with a very sharp edge written by two of the best in this area.  Add a third one, who I had heard about and finally got an opportunity to ...

"As the Year Changes So do your Goals, Priorities, and Directions" ... Ocean City, NJ   The end of the year, or the beginning of the next one, represents a great opportunity for taking a careful look at where you are, what you are doing right and wrong, where you might want to be, how you might g...

"Island Time in the Winter in Ocean City ... New Jersey I often like to share "island time" information for those people who may never have spent much time on an island.  By about October of any year, but certainly in December, much of the island is very dark at night.  Street lights but often yo...

"I Forgot How Much I Enjoy December!!!" ... Ocean City, New Jersey   Right away here on our barrier island off the coast of South Jersey, things slow quite a bit after the arrival of Thanksgiving that leads into the interesting month of December. Let's hit some personal thoughts first.  I tend to...

"How Many Coffee Locations can one small town have? ... Ocean City, New Jersey   Now we have two different ways of looking at this:  we can go by the potential size of the population at different times of the year ... i.e. about 10-12,000 during the off-season months which tend to get lower and l...

What does the "Property-of-the-Week" Do for You ... Ocean City, NJ   Well, the latest issue of the Ocean City Sentinel (December 11, 2013) says it all:  "House of the Week" on upper section of the front page notifying you where to go.  The second section of the paper ... "Waypoints - Real Estate,...

"2014 Do's And Don'ts" on the Light Side ... Ocean City, NJ   Yes, after 32 years in public education in Pennsylvania, with 17 of these as a high school principal ... and another 21 years in real estate here in Ocean City (NJ); I have set my annual goals, lived to talk about them, and survived by...

"The Times They are a-changing - Indoor Tennis Begins Today" - OC/NJ So I've been playing "doubles tennis" once or twice a week since early spring ... played last week once, but it is getting too cold, damp, wet to play outdoors anymore.  So we move indoors over in Somers Point for our first time...

Real Estate "Agency Relocation" ... in Ocean City, New Jersey   It's probably old news to many of us in Ocean City, NJ ... but it remains exciting news as well.  Goldcoast Sotheby's International Realty (from the corner of Asbury Avenue and 18th Street - with a knockout punch from Hurricane Sandy...

"913 First Street - House of the Week" in Ocean City, New Jersey   Each week the weekly paper in Ocean City, NJ ... the Ocean City Sentinel has a special section called the "House of the Week."  I was fortunate enough to get my single family at "913 First Street" into the December 11, 2013 editio...