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Gravel and tomato lead to a path for a great Hike and Slice™

Finally, our first Hike and Slice™ of the season. We wanted to accomplish one each month but weather and schedules

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Let’s talk about perimenopause

We’ve all seen the comparison that shows how far we’ve come when looking at the actresses in Golden Girls to

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Melissa enters new chapter as an empty nester

For the past 20 years I’ve been a class mom, a Girl Scout co-leader, a cookie mom, a PTO Secretary,

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Melissa’s top picks for compression socks

Compression socks are designed to apply pressure to your lower legs, to help maintain blood flow and reduce discomfort and

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Hike and Slice – Family Edition!

It was my **th birthday this past weekend – fine, my 50th – and my daughter Erin and her boyfriend

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Melissa: Take a hike! My top five trails in NJ!

So many hikes…so little time. New Jersey has so many hiking trails in varying lengths and degrees of difficulty. It’s

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Brown and Dead…The Trail or The Pizza?

Since indoor activities are so limited in these Covid days, we layer up and suck it up and get outside

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What Am I…An Animal?

I love Cheesequake State Park. I always have. I’ve been going since I moved to New Jersey when I was

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