I'm a Jersey Girl by birth. I grew up in Northern New Jersey - in Montclair, a suburb of New York City, until I was 12. Then we moved to historic Morris County, where George Washington slept just about everywhere. We lived there until I finished college. After college I moved to Ocean City, Maryland and landed a job at a local radio station. Ocean City has been my home away from home since I was a kid. We spent part of every summer there from the time I was 5 until the mid-1970s when my parents bought a condo on the beach so there would always be someplace to stay when we came into town. I worked for several years in a T-shirt shop off the boardwalk until I finished school and joined the full time work force. Beach Tree - The day a tree grew on the beach Stormy Delmarva - Storms are a part of life near the beach President's Week Nor'easter - The year the ocean froze! Hurricane Gloria - What Hurricane Gloria did to Ocean City, MD in 1985 After 4 years living in the Ocean City area I headed over the state line to Delaware, where I've lived since 1985.