What Should Ocean City Parents Expect From Their School Board?
community, and his family’s experience navigating the school system. What does transparency really mean when parents need answers?
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Living in Ocean City NJ: Forty Years, One Island, and a Dozen Homes
From 55th Street to Second Street and back again, I spent forty years living in Ocean City, New Jersey. These are the homes, people, and memories that shaped my life on the island, from 1984 until October 2024.
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When I was about ten years old, I had a short list of things I wanted to do sometime in my life.
As a kid, I wanted to become a magician and perform on a real stage at least once. After summers working in an Ocean City Boardwalk magic shop, kids’ shows, restaurant magic, and some very different tricks in bars, I finally got that stage at First Night.
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Growing Up With Storms in Ocean City, New Jersey
I spent forty years living in Ocean City, New Jersey, and only evacuated for two storms: Gloria and Sandy. Most of the others I experienced firsthand, walking empty streets in wind, rain and snow, surfing hurricane swells and eventually making my way to the beach to watch the Atlantic.
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Ocean City Is Dry. The Flanders Shows What That Actually Means.
I set up the portable bar at Flanders banquets, where guests brought the alcohol and hired a bartender. That experience helps explain the difference between private events and alcohol sales in Ocean City.
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The Day Mags Followed Me to the Beach
One quiet September afternoon, my teenage cat Mags followed me down 55th Street to the beach, waited while I surfed, and joined me for a dollar hot dog on the walk home. At the time, it was simply another day. Looking back, it represents how uncomplicated life once felt.
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Forty Years in Ocean City: 1984–2024
I moved to Ocean City when I was twelve and left forty years later. Somewhere between 1984 and 2024 were house parties, friends, family, the Boardwalk, the Chatterbox, disappearing old houses and an island that slowly became a different kind of hometown.
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Twelve Years of Hip Pain: Brian’s Experience With Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease
It was almost Thanksgiving, and Brian was playing right guard for the Ocean City Hawks pee-wee football team. He was in sixth grade, about 12 years old, when we noticed he had developed a limp and was complaining about pain. At first, my wife and I figured it was probably football. Kids get banged up,…
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The First Time I Took Acid
I was about fourteen and still in eighth grade in Ocean City, NJ, the first time I took acid. What started with a small gold-star tab became a summer of LSD, strange nights, and experiences I still remember decades later.
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I Remember the Sindia Shipwreck in Ocean City’s
I remember when pieces of the Sindia shipwreck were still visible from the Ocean City beach. More than a century after the ship ran aground, its remains are now buried beneath the sand—but the stories, legends and memories surrounding it remain.
