Keep It Glowing All Winter Long

After discussing the best ways to keep facial skin healthy and glowing during the winter months with several local experts, many themes arose: exfoliation, moisturizing, hydration, and sunscreen. These steps are all important because the winter weather tends to be drier, which has an impact on the skin. Somewhat surprisingly, the [...]

My thoughts – Dec 2010 / Jan 2011

“What do you want?” We’re asked this question often during our lives: what do you want for dinner; what do you want for the holidays; what do you want to be when you grow up; what do you want to do with the rest of your life? I received a gift two [...]

One Man Follows His Dream—Ends Up in the Zoo

For a kid with a fascination for reptiles—and just about any other critter—Joe Fortunato’s pleasure in his childhood travels to Michigan, Illinois, the
Poconos, and the Jersey shore was as much about the different animals he’d find in those environs as it was the family members who lived there.
Not [...]

Organic Beauty Products

You know what it means to eat well—organic fruits and vegetables, cage-free eggs and grass-fed meats may be mainstays of your menu. But when you consider that the average woman applies more than 200 chemicals to her skin each day and sixty percent of these chemical are further absorbed into the [...]

Do I Really Need a Financial Planner?

This is a question that I am always asked. I respond by quoting Loren Dunton, Founder of the National Center for Financial Education, from his book Financial Planning Can Make You Rich (1987): “Most people need a planner. The ones who don’t need one are usually smart enough to use one.” [...]

A First Brush with Success for Palate

The palette of colors once painted on pre-kilned ceramics in the building that housed Color Me Mine—the paint-your–own-pottery chain—is now synonymous with its new resident. That resident is a fifty-seat BYO, which might be a little more enticing to the young Picasso’s parents.
Chef/Owner Justin Kaplan went through fifteen different [...]

Broadway Baby

It started out as just another ordinary, extraordinary day in the life of Paloma Garcia-Lee. After all, the seventeen year-old was already no ordinary teenager. This was the high school graduate who left her Wrightstown, Pa., home to live on her own in New York City and fulfill her dream of [...]

Joy to the World

The little faces come first—like the 66 mustachioed men collectively staring ear-to-ear from one drawer, each with a unique glint in their black eyes. Next come the bodies—hundreds of miniature forms, each revealing a different, and rather forgiving, figure (a small sign on a shelf reads “Tall Fat Women”). Finally, reams [...]

Pursuing Her Passion for Photography

With a clear passion and an inspired imagination, Ruth has been creating scenic photography in Bucks County since jumping ship from the pharmaceutical industry. Though she is not the first to make that transition, she definitely feels it has been a calling. “From Pharma to Photos” begins to describe the journey [...]

The Starmaker

It’s not easy to become a “has-been” by age twelve; it means you need to start very young (like at age three), work in a particularly unforgiving business (like acting and modeling), and you have to achieve instant success (like appearing in 40 commercials and countless print advertisements). It’s quite an [...]

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