Category: Information & Education

Though politics can be a dangerous subject to talk about in mixed company, you’ll never hear me deny that I just don’t like the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. In short, he’s pompous, arrogant and uses the same bullying practices found on playgrounds across the country to scare people into doing what he wants. That’s not true leadership no matter how you try and spin it. He continues to tell residents how we should share in the sacrifices this state needs to make in order to become more fiscally responsible, and truthfully, many residents are already struggling just to get by. Perhaps you could understand his continued plea for New Jersey residents to tighten their own belts and bare some of the burden if he were doing the same,…

Many would characterize Thomas Alva Edison as an ingenious inventor – holding 1,093 U.S. patents for such creations as the phonograph and most notably the electric light bulb. The life of an inventor is riddled with disappointments - sometimes requiring dozens, even hundreds of failed attempts before finally attaining success. But Edison refused to let failure define his life’s work. So instead he lived under the simple belief that anything was achievable with a little persistence and a lot of elbow grease. He once joked, “I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process”. Obviously Edison was a card carrying member of the “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” club. But his life’s practices and optomisitc attitude are far from easy to apply in…

If you asked what religious denomination I was born into, I’d be somewhat weary to answer. You see I was once a devout Catholic who never ate meat on Fridays during Lent and attended mass every Sunday without fail. But one of the things which truly signifies our transition from child to adult is the ability to see the world through our own eyes – to not simply accept the ideas and beliefs we’ve been taught, but to question their meaning and their relevance in our lives. Like many other Catholic’s I’ve spoken to, I’ve started to question my religious faith – feeling as though the church I once found comfort and solace in has let me down by, pardon the pun, failing to practice so much of what they…