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MOM COMPARISON: THE NEXT GENERATION by Olivia Mack McCool
Peeking behind the Instagram curtain If you type my name into Instagram, what you’ll be presented with are many little colorful squares...
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- Oct 6, 2022
- 6 min
CIRCLES OF SISTERHOOD by Tami Steckler
A duo helps women glow, grow and build community Women like to gather. Not in the traditional hunter-gatherer paradigm, but gather...
ellencdonker
- Nov 26, 2021
- 3 min
WHAT MATTERS THIS SEASON by Ellen Donker
Honoring our traditions even as they shift As the holidays are upon us, I’m looking forward to any excuse to be with family and friends...
ellencdonker
- Oct 1, 2021
- 6 min
THE SNOWBALL EFFECT by Tia Swanson
Changing the world, one child at a time Lorraine Kerry Barnett grew up poor in the Central Ward of Newark during the dark period that...
ellencdonker
- Oct 1, 2021
- 4 min
OHEB SHALOM WELCOMES NEW CLERGY TEAM by Malia Rulon Herman
It’s all-female, but that’s beside the point Congregants of Oheb Shalom, a Conservative Jewish temple in South Orange, gathered this...
ellencdonker
- Jun 11, 2021
- 3 min
IS BASEBALL CALLING MY NAME By Ellen Donker
I’m learning to read the signals It’s baseball season and I think this may be the year to throw myself into the sport. That’s what...
ellencdonker
- Jun 11, 2021
- 6 min
ACCIDENTAL BOOK MEETS ACCIDENTAL PUBLISHER By Tia Swanson
A serendipitous SOMA pairing of a writer, a month, and a press About 10 years ago, Pamela Erens was a bit stuck. Her first novel,...
ellencdonker
- Mar 12, 2021
- 5 min
BOTH SIDES NOW By Tia Swanson Photography by Julia Maloof Verderosa
A restoration lends a carriage house purpose 125 years later When New York native Christine Llewellyn Ohemeng and her husband, Kwame...
ellencdonker
- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
WHAT REALLY MATTERS by Elaine Durbach
Reflecting on a storied 30 years We could have been very confused. For my husband and me, coming from Park Slope and knowing only one...
ellencdonker
- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
PUBLISHING IN A PANDEMIC by Ellen Donker
Two local authors announce their newest works Eager to share the news of their just-published books with public launches, two Maplewood...
ellencdonker
- Mar 12, 2020
- 3 min
FINDING THE HOME I ALREADY HAD by Jan Oosting Kaminsky
A Temporary Move Points us Back Home Last year, my family and I were all a little bit down in the dumps – stressed, overworked,...
ellencdonker
- Oct 3, 2019
- 2 min
DEAR DAUGHTER by Ellen Donker
A note to Madeline I have been feeling like a chameleon lately. In this issue we’re featuring 51 women in business. I’ve interviewed each...
donny levit
- Jun 11, 2019
- 5 min
LISTEN UP! MAPLEWOOD IS RADIO-SILENT NO LONGER by Donny Levit
It all started out with a radio boom box and a Barbie disco record player.
ellencdonker
- Oct 9, 2018
- 3 min
A Proven Partnership
The women at Studio 509 – Guada Bas, Holly Benge and Bethany Pettigrew – have good instincts for opportunity. As owners of a successful...
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