This Is My New Jersey

All that is great about the Garden State!

Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart

September 27, 2026

Italian Heritage Month: October 2026

We officially said goodbye to the summer of 2026. I’ll be honest, I used to love the fall. To me it meant back to school, marching band, and day trips to enjoy the leaves. Now? It means we are creeping ever closer to the winter, my least favorite season, and darkness by 4pm. However, there… Continue reading

Essex County, Festivals, History, Morris County, New Jersey

Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Feast of St. Gerard, Italian American Heritage Month, Lou Del Bianco, Montclair, New Jersey, New Jersey history, New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission, Newark, Roxbury, St. Lucy’s Church, Teaching Italian Symposium
June 26, 2026

New Jersey Welcomes the World (not New York)

The World Cup is officially underway at the Meadowlands, which in case you were confused, is in New Jersey – NOT New York. So, we welcome the world to our beloved state, which contains immigrants and ethnicities from every corner of the world. In a way, it makes sense that Jersey is the host. A… Continue reading

Bergen County, Essex County, Exploring, Food, Just Plain Cool, New Jersey, Sussex County

Campino Restaurant, Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Dickie Dee’s, Franklin Mineral Museum, Franklinite, Jughandle, New Jersey, Newark Archdiocese, Revolutionary War, Sterling Hill Mining MuseumSterling Hill Mining Museum, The Belmont, Thomas Edison, West Orange
January 4, 2022

2022 New Jersey Goals

As the calendar turns and we move ahead to 2022, most people make resolutions for the new year. I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan of resolutions. They are usually all the same; lose weight, spend more time with the family, blah, blah, blah. While it may sound like semantics, I prefer to make goals.… Continue reading

Atlantic County, Burlington County, Camden County, Cape May County, Conservation, Cumberland County, Essex County, Exploring, Food, Gloucester County, History, Monmouth County, Morris County, New Jersey, Ocean County, Outdoors, Photography, Pine Barrens, Preservation

Appalachian Trail, cape may diamond, Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Down the Shore, Dr. Michael Giuliano, Film Photography Podcast, fly fishing, Heritage Brook Trout, horseshoe crab, New Jersey, Newark, Pine Barrens, red knot
May 24, 2020

The Official Jersey Bucket List

As we all continue to wait to be paroled from Coronavirus jail, many of us are making plans of what we would like to do once we are free to go anywhere and do anything. Well, this had me start to make a “Jersey bucket list;” all the things Jersey-related someone should do at some… Continue reading

Atlantic County, Burlington County, Camden County, Cape May County, Conservation, Cumberland County, Exploring, Food, History, Morris County, New Jersey, Ocean County, Outdoors, Pine Barrens, Preservation, Shopping, Sussex County

Appalachian Trail, Atlantic City, Brook Trout, Cape May, cape may diamond, Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, fly fishing, High Point, Hirams, Hot Grill, Morristown, Morristown National Historical Park, Rutts Hut, Seaside Heights, The Belmont, The Midway, The Pine Barrens

Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart

Italian Heritage Month: October 2026

New Jersey Welcomes the World (not New York)

2022 New Jersey Goals

The Official Jersey Bucket List