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Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Month: August 2015

  • Offbeat Home Publication

    Hello all!  Despite my little blogging break, I am excited to say that Offbeat Home posted one of my recent articles about Buddhism and cleaning. Check out the Offbeat home article here!🙂          

  • Greetings from Wildwood

    I have an unnatural attachment to the Great Egg toll booth plaza on the Southbound side of the Garden State Parkway.  Anyone who has spent their lives traveling to the southern tip of the Jersey Shore understands this feeling.  After the inevitable Union County traffic, the pushy crowds of the Atlantic City rest stop, and…

  • The Financial Diet Publication

    Publication saves the day! Today started out with me throwing my tea mug across the room and ruining my work laptop. So to say the least, finding out that The Financial Diet published my article about Backwards Budgeting significantly turned the day around. I really enjoy these ladies, so I highly recommend wandering around their…

  • Zen and the Art of Cleaning Up Cat Hair

    It’s Sunday morning at 7am and I’m up with unexpected energy. We were responsible last night instead of going upstairs for extra drinks with our neighbors. We went to bed at 11! We had plans for the morning, and look at me sticking to them! I start the coffee, write a bit, and head out…

  • Celebrating Growth, Even When You’re Bad at Math

    I’ve been trying to think a lot about math lately. I’m terrible at math, I always have been. It was the only subject in school where I was happy if I even squeaked by. But it took some growing up to understand that the concepts in math are much more relatable to life than I…

  • Elite Daily Publication

    Yahoo!!  Okay, I am new to this whole getting published thing so I am still celebrating every time it happens. This is an article I wrote on a whim.  I recently became a contributing writer to Elite Daily, and their “trending topic” of the week was “Traveling without Technology.”  So I wrote this in about…

  • Fresh Summer Chicken Teriyaki on Warm Maple Zucchini Salad

    This is a fantastic meal to put together if you have time to prep something early on and then only a short amount of notice to heat it up. The prep takes a little bit of time (not all that much) but the cooking itself only takes about 5 minutes. The balance of the cold…

  • Offbeat Bride Publication

    It’s been a very strange day (see prior post for more details) but I got some wonderful news last week that Offbeat Bride picked up one of my articles on wedding planning.  I have always loved this site.  It takes away the stereotypes and pressures placed on brides and weddings.  I was so honored to…

  • Blogging Break

    Hi all.  Normally on Sunday, at least for the past two weeks, I include a new recipe I’m working on.  I also have some beautiful photos from Vermont that I look forward to sharing this week.  Unfortunately, there are days that simply stop you in your tracks.  On the way home from our trip, I…

  • Local Traveler: Tinmouth & Wallingford

    A week ago, I was asked to write a blog post for a website about “Local Wanderlust”- a term I showed interest in creating, even though the world “Wanderlust” itself gets under my skin.  The purpose of my article was to shed light on local travel and growing curiosity for the simple places we live in…