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  • Why We Honor Our Veterans

    Why We Honor Our Veterans

    As women, we are especially grateful to be able to gather at Heaertworks and speak freely. One of our core philosophies at Heartworks is that none of us would be able to enjoy what we do in our lives without the sacrifices made by our military. We realize that there are so many places in…

  • Chef’s at Heartworks Ultimate Super Tailgate Tasting V

    Chef’s at Heartworks Ultimate Super Tailgate Tasting V

    Chef’s that participated in this year’s Super Ultimate Tailgate Tasting V and helped make our event amazing! Basking Ridge Catering / Delicious Heights Outpost Fiddler’s Elbow Healthy Italia Jane’s Kitchen Minuteman Smokehouse & Grill Ninety Acres @ Natirar Saly G’s Restaurant & Tavern The Stirling Hotel Stirling Tavern Stone House at Stirling Ridge The Bernards…

  • 2018 Winners of Best Taste Tailgate Food, Cake, and Presentation!

    2018 Winners of Best Taste Tailgate Food, Cake, and Presentation!

    2018 Best Taste went to Saly G’s Restaurant 2018 Best Presentation went to A Sweet Passion Cakery 2018 Best Tasting Cake went to Donna Dream Puff’s

  • Pastry Chef’s at Heartworks Ultimate Super Tailgate Tasting V

    Pastry Chef’s at Heartworks Ultimate Super Tailgate Tasting V

    Pastry Chefs who participated in this year’s Super Ultimate Tailgate Tasting V and helped make our event fabulous! Bovella’s Pastry Shoppe Palermo’s Bakery La Bonbonniere Bake Shoppes Sweet Passion Cakery Donna’s Dream Puffs The Bernards Inn

  • Gingerbread Open House

    Gingerbread Open House

    Hosted by our Jr. Heartworkers, the Gingerbread Open House fundraiser has become an annual family tradition with all proceeds going towards sending kindness to kids living with illness. Kids are welcome to come to the Heartworks house and decorate pre-assembled gingerbread houses with icing and candy and we clean up the mess! Click here to Reserve…

  • How Bono Saved Me From My 17-Year-Old Self

    How Bono Saved Me From My 17-Year-Old Self

    This picture is of me at the 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree concert with my original ticket from 1987 (which cost $16.50, by the way). This week, I went to see U2 at Met Life Stadium. While everyone else was screaming and singing along with Pride (In the Name of Love), I sank down into my…

  • Get Off the Bus this Memorial Day

    Get Off the Bus this Memorial Day

    I was rushing around town yesterday morning, a few days before Memorial Day. And when I say rushing, I mean really rushing, caught up in the unconscious busy-ness of life in a small East Coast town. Darting through the parking lot I saw a United States veteran handing out poppies outside of Starbucks. I said…

  • Manchester, England and our Veterans

    Manchester, England and our Veterans

    Hello Everyone, If you are struggling to honor the victims of last night’s Terror Attack in England, please join us at the Veteran’s ceremony today at 4:00 p.m. at the Bernardsville Post Office 7 Quimby Lane. It will help us all to slow down and stand together in peace and reverence. The ceremony is 6…

  • Release and Let Go This Month with Heartworks

    Release and Let Go This Month with Heartworks

    During the month of April Heartworks will be focusing on releasing and letting go. The inspiration for this theme is our annual yard sale in April. Every year I bring up the topic of letting go of what no longer serves us. It’s a time for all of us to go through our homes, our…

  • Heartworks Snow Day Prayer

    Heartworks Snow Day Prayer

    Heartworks would love to have you join us at 3:00 today to pray for anyone you know who is stressed or fearful of this snowstorm due to their life circumstances . Lots of different prayers can be said. Here is a start to a list of people that come to Megan’s heart. Please expand this…