As you may have noticed, I have not been active on the site for a it. A little issue with my immune system deciding to take some time off.  Pretty weird things going on, but I am doing much better now, and look the site to get back to where we were. Even though I [...]

Sometimes it is best to play by the rules. Do what you are supposed to do, not make waves.  But sometimes, you have to rock the boat. Today, I am going beyond that.  Today, I don’t care if I sink the damn thing. First, the back story. Several years ago, my friends, Jack and Jill [...]

A fellow member of the Navigating Change media think tank, Neil Ducoff wrote  the book, “No Compromise Leadership” which really is a great read. Although written as a business leadership book about how to identify problem behavior of company management, and how to rectify the same, it is also a book that all of us [...]

Many of us make New Year’s Resolutions, yet overlook an important part of our lives, our Financial Health. Economic data shows that in December 2009 our nation’s unemployment rate was 10%, or a whopping 2.6% points higher than a year earlier (see Bureau of Labor statistics at www.bls.gov). Clearly, responsibly managing one’s money in this [...]

Yes, we are putting into motion a lot of changes on the site. And unlike other social networking sites, you will like what we do, and they will work for you.  Anything and everything we can to make this the best damn website that we can. We are going to change a lot of things. [...]

Now here’s the thing. It’s all about choices, and having all the information needed to make these choices.  Recently, myself and many others were all  over this Facebook thing about opening up (selling ) to Google, and other search engines, your information.  So before I go off, check out this article, but also watch the [...]

As I sit and write this, it occurs to me that I am not a journalist, nor do I pretend to  be one. Never went to school for it (as you can tell with some of my posts), but I am learning every day, and quite honestly, enjoying every minute of it. So, in conversation [...]

One of the greatest things about having this website is the fact that we can use our visibility to support many local charities, and bring awareness to the needs of the communities that we serve. Giving to those who need is very important to Mike and I.  And at Shoreline Out and About LLC, it’s [...]

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every year, Dow Jones compiles a list of the prior year’s gobbledygook, a compendium of words and phrases that have been overused to the extent that they’ve been rendered meaningless. The winner for 2008 was innovative, which comes as no surprise, given our [...]

Like so many other folks, I am unemployed. More precisely, I am partially employed, working part-time at two radio stations and picking up occasional voice-over jobs all of which I am grateful for but all of which combined will not pay my mortgage let alone my electric bill. And, like so many other folks, I [...]

Hey kids, there’s a new law in Connecticut. It’s called the “Move Over” law and it was passed because, apparently, there are so many self-absorbed drivers on the road that the state has to start fining people to get them to pull their heads out of their you-know-whats. In case you don’t know, the “Move [...]

Hello my name is Pam and I am a Mets fan. Yup. Yeah I know. Most people in the Nutmeg State say “WTF?” when they find out I’m a Mets fan. Sometimes I think I’d get less of a reaction of bewilderment if I said I was, say, a Padres fan. Or a Nationals fan. [...]

Maybe it’s just my personal experience, but it seems as if the tenor of life in general has taken a downturn with the economy. The recent town hall meetings on health care reform are a good example of degradation of discourse in this country. Civility on the road, in business meetings, on the phone, internet [...]

Buying your newborn son his first T-Shirt that reads, “I can’t even walk yet and I already hate the Red Sox!” – $12.50 Sitting in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium under the thunderous ripples of the “Roll Call” – $14.00 Getting an opportunity to deny the courtesy of holding the door for a guy wearing [...]

Greetings and welcome to the Shoreline Out and About! I am thrilled to be a part of such a fantastic local community effort. Let’s bring our ‘sociable selves’ out of the dusty closet and have some fun! I am a weekly columnist for the Huffington Post, mother of four, and have dedicated my professional life [...]