After a lifetime of being river, lake and/or ocean folk by Jessica Delfino As a child who spent summers jumping into green brown waters off docks whose undersides doubled as a spider’s version of Burning Man, leaping with wild abandon from backroad overpasses and gnarled up old ropes into leech…

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a photo from a Thanksgiving several years ago My husband woke me up this morning and said, “Can you take the family out for breakfast so I can cook our day’s feast without a big breakfast mess in the way?” I groggily nodded and pulled myself up out of the…

Episode 14 Since December, I’ve been hosting a radio show on Pocono 96.7 FM. It’s about 15 minutes long, and it’s all about parenting in the Poconos and beyond. It’s part of The Gary Cee Morning Show, and Gary produces the show and co-hosts it. Every week, I dig through…

Develop Your Own Comedy Scene In Your Small, Podunk Town Using These Easy 48 Or So Steps Photo credit: Samantha Watkins It can be frustrating being a comedian or comedy lover in a small town. You may feel that you have to travel upwards of an hour or more to…

Hi there! I’m just getting a little fresh air, out early in the misty morning after dropping my child off at school. Just here to see the foliage and take in some nature on this crisp Autumn morning. I’m just wearing big soled sneakers to protect my aging ankles and…

My life changed in such dramatic ways after I had a baby. I am still shocked and stunned at the things that other mothers left out when telling me stories about what parenting would be like. But the truth is, I probably wouldn’t have believed them or understood until I…

I haven’t been so excited about something in a long time. We bought a new house recently after a long, sad, delayed, complicated ordeal where our other house that we bought and loved so much got flooded. We spent this past week doing some home improvements. To start, we had…

You’re forgiven — photo courtesy Clay Banks / Unsplash I remember the first time it happened. An old friend who had truly broken my heart randomly contacted me out of the blue. Vanishing Act We were young comedians and she was beautiful and funny. I loved being around her. She and another girl and I…