Just like I don’t like thinking about Back to School until Labor Day Weekend, I can’t clean out my closets to get ready for the semi-annual Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Rummage Sale in Far Hills, NJ, until the date gets much closer. However, it’s the Sunday before school starts, the Visiting Nursing Association tents are [...]
Read More»Welcome to Roxy’s Best Of… San Francisco, one of the very first Roxy blogs not written by Roxy. I’d like to introduce you to Jason Buckley, best known in and around the blogosphere for his blog, Washington Interns Gone Bad.
Another BlogExplosion favorite, Jason describes himself in his online profile as follows:
I am somewhere between 30 [...]
Read More»I first learned about Randolph Gymnastics in Randolph, New Jersey, back in the Fall of 2004 when London and Maddie were pre-schoolers, invited to a different Westmont Montessori classmate’s birthday party almost every weekend. As you can see from the photo on the right, the facilities are huge and conjure up visions of Olympic training [...]
Read More»From the Roxiticus Desperate Memoirs:
Thursday, August 28, 2008, after 5:30pm
It smells so good out here on the beach…ocean air, sea breeze. Our girls have grown up to the point where they will disappear for hours at a time on the beach with their friends, their shovels, their buckets, barbies and Polly Pocket dolls. “Act your [...]
Oh, I know that it’s getting late
But I don’t want to go home
I’m in no hurry baby time can wait
‘Cause I don’t want to go home
Listen to the man sing his song
I don’t want to go home
I don’t mind if it takes all night long
‘Cause I don’t want to go home
Listen, baby, I know we [...]
Welcome to Roxy’s Best Of… Whitewater, one of the very first Roxy blogs not written by Roxy, and the very first Roxy blog that covers the best of a specific topic (whitewater rafting) for the entire United States and the whole wide world instead of the best of a specific town. I’d like to introduce [...]
Read More»Welcome to Roxy’s Best Of… Detroit, Michigan, one of the very first Roxy blogs not written by Roxy. I’d like to introduce you to Matt Urdan, best known in and around the blogosphere for his blog, Meltwater. Torrents. Meanderings. Delta.
Read More»Dear Roxy,
I’m also a local mom (in Gladstone) and have read through portions of your blog - lots of fun commentary. I think it would be an ideal place to post information about a new Pre-K to 4th Grade school opening in Bernardsville, New Jersey. You may be familiar with the Cottage School in Peapack-Gladstone. [...]
If you’re thinking about joining Roxy and the rest of the Roxiticus Desperate Housewives by moving to the Greater Roxiticus Valley (Bernardsville, Mendham, Far Hills, Peapack-Gladstone, Bedminster, and Basking Ridge, New Jersey), have I got a recommendation for you!
Ann Tannen, a great realtor with the patience of a saint, spent 2 years searching Bernardsville, NJ [...]
Rex and I “diverge” when it comes to the Station Pub & Grub in Bernardsville, New Jersey. After a disappointing experience there about a year ago, Rex will not likely go back. That afternoon started with the opening of Charlotte’s Web at the Clearview Bernardsville Cinema, where the seats smelled rank and moldy and the [...]
Read More»Bay Head, New Jersey is having its very own rubber duck derby to benefit the Bay Head School Foundation. Scheduled for Saturday, September 6th, from Noon to 3pm, the Great Bay Head Duck Derby includes a $50 Diamond Duck Race, a $10 Dainty Duck Race, gift auctions and silent auctions. The day’s events will begin [...]
Read More»As we start thinking about going back to school, I’d like to remind everyone that an exciting project is underway at the Mendham Township Elementary School. The Mendham Township Education Foundation is working to construct an Outdoor Learning Center in the Mendham Township Elementary School library courtyard. The project will convert an unused area to [...]
Read More»Since we first moved to the Roxiticus Valley in October 2003, Rex and I have often enjoyed a “business lunch” (just the two of us) at The Limestone Cafe in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey. However, it’s only been in the past couple of years that we’ve started taking the girls there for dinner. It is Maddie’s [...]
Read More»Rex and the girls and I came back from the beach a few Sunday nights ago, and Rex didn’t feel like cooking, so we enjoyed a delicious dinner at Cafe Azzurro in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey.
Cafe Azzurro. Italian bistro. BYOB. Open 7 days a week for dinner from 5pm to 10pm, Monday-Friday for lunch from [...]
CocoLuxe is like a taste of Paris right here in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey. Yum…you’ll find cakes, cookies, crumb buns, croissants, and lots of other baked treats at CocoLuxe. Click through to their web site, or you can reach them by phone at (908) 781-5554.
Read More»I was over at the Anchor & Palette on Mount Street in Bay Head, New Jersey, and picked up a flyer about a fund-raiser to be hosted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 by Sweet Charity, a new division of Toys.calm, a non-profit organization dedicated to easing the anxiety of ailing children that goes along with [...]
Read More»The Black River Music and Art Fest, coming to Chester, New Jersey on Saturday, August 16th, is a FREE all day event featuring some of the best local original musical acts as well as numerous visual artists displaying their work. Last year’s event drew an estimated 9,000 people, and they’re expecting an even bigger turnout [...]
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