Your Morning Vice – A Colada if You’re in Ecuador
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
It is the thick of winter now, warm days are distant memory, and one of the most comforting things is a hot beverage cradled in your hands. Here in Jersey, coffee is pretty much a morning religion. You can make it [...]
Will all of FLOW have a CERT?
by Ryan “Robinson” Schwertfeger
Recently, several local high school students graduated from a training course which is catching fire across the country. In this program called CERT, or Community Emergency Response Team, members are trained and educated about what to do to help their community after a major disaster. [...]
Yuri Wright, senior at Don Bosco High School, was recently expelled from the Catholic academy in response to sexist and racist comments posted to his Twitter account. Thomas Aquinas addressed the question…Is stupidity a sin…
Six months into it’s implementation, NJ’s new bullying law is facing opposition which they says the law has critical flaws…
Rev. Rod Gorter Joins Christian Health Care Center Board
Rev. Rod Gorter, MDiv, ThM, pastor of Midland Park Christian Reformed Church, recently joined Christian Health Care Center’s Board of Trustees. He is replacing Rev. Norman Brown, pastor of the Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church in Wyckoff, who is retiring and leaving the area.
“The board of trustees [...]
Dear Neighbor:
Thank you for your support throughout 2011. It sure was a busy year!
Following our successful membership drive in June, we were able to bring the renewal of the Open Space Trust Fund to the forefront, not only to Wyckoff residents, but to our Township Committee. On April 26, 2011, the township attorney prepared an [...]
Is Smaller Better?
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
The last miniature quiche was passed under our noses at a wedding and everyone lunged at the tempting hors d’oeuvre. Then came the tiny kebobs with a Thai peanut sauce. Each tray brought smaller more scrumptious bites of food that normally come in larger sizes.
Which made me think, [...]
“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 [...]
Remembering Pearl Harbor for the lives lost and the lessons that can be learned from America’s response.
Christmas Food for Thought and Song
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
No one can deny the holidays are steeped in age-old traditions (well, unless you are an ardent follower of Festivus!). What’s interesting is that many foods mentioned in Christmas songs are foreign to most Americans. But they sure do sound good.
The Nutcracker, written by Pyotr [...]
