12 Things for a Better New You Year
Be More Curious
Wonder more about things. Whether it’s art, music, politics or science, be more curious. Ask a few additional “whys” and then go seek the answers.
Make a Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is usually associated with a holy place, but you can define your own. Maybe it’s your hometown where [...]
Eric Rasmussen. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
A character in Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology observes that people thought him mad because his life goal was to memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Shakespearean scholar makes a similar profession of lunacy regarding his decades’-long [...]
God is Born
The history of the cosmos
is the history of the struggle of becoming.
When the dim flux of unformed life
struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
and broke at last into light and dark
came into existence as light,
came into existence as cold shadow
then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.
Behold, God is born!
He is bright [...]
The holiday season brings with it many joys, and many questions.
A lot of the questions revolve around Santa Claus, and how can he be real. How can an old overweight man travel the earth delivering toys to children? How can his reindeer fly? How can he carry all those toys? How can he fit down [...]
Junior Master Gardener Program Comes to Wyckoff this Winter
Wyckoff — A six-week Junior Master Gardener Program for children ages 8 to 11 will be held at Abma’s Farm, 700 Lawlins Road, Jan. 14 to Feb. 18, 2012. The international youth gardening program is run by the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension [...]
On December 15 at 10:43pm, Wyckoff Police received a report from a citizen of a vehicle being driven erratically on Route 208. Ptl. Kevin Kasak responded and stopped the vehicle near the Franklin Lakes border. Following field sobriety tests, Ptl. Kasak arrested a Wayne resident, age 71, for DWI. Following a breath test he was [...]
A Midland Park Police Officer was charged with driving while intoxicated following a 3:13pm crash on December 15. Joseph B. Gaeta, Wyckoff, age 31; was the driver an ATV quad vehicle that crashed at the intersection of Godwin Avenue and Greenhaven Road. Gaeta, a patrol officer in Midland Park, had earlier been at the Bergen [...]
The mayors of Franklin Lakes & Wyckoff recently joined NJ’s Governor during a speech in Teaneck where Christie was seeking to build momentum for an end to “sick day payouts”
Sick day payouts allow an employee to accrue unused sick days and cash them in at retirement. For some municipalities, facing a large number of retirements, [...]
“It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful, but it is more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which we morally can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest [...]
On December 3 at 10:08am, Wyckoff Police were notified by a citizen of a vehicle being driven erratically. The car was stopped on Russell Avenue, and the driver, a Woodcliff Lake resident, age 22; was arrested for possession of heroin, possession of a hypodermic needle, and driving while under the influence of narcotics. He was [...]
