Still Jammin’

The end of the year is in sight, but this office is still jamming with events and the preparations leading up to them. Our events require meetings and much preparation. How much depends on the complexity of the event, but it’s still hours of preparation. Sometimes it’s back-to-back meetings—with the event committees, with Police and

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An Election Night

Last Tuesday, Paul Auster’s massive biography of 19th century author and New Jersey native Stephen Crane was released. If the publisher had waited one more week, the book would have arrived on Election Day, an appropriate tribute to Crane’s years as a New York City reporter that put him in the middle of the 1894

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Finding Common Ground

Recently I was listening to the radio as I was driving and happened upon the program “Freakonomics.” The topic had to do with our seeming addiction to contempt; the sense that we have a “contempt crisis” happening in our politics and even in our daily lives. This sounded right to me as I listened and

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