All posts by RJ Heller

RJ Heller

About RJ Heller

Having arrived here from Pennsylvania over four years ago, there has been plenty to learn and even more to observe. This place is different, but I mean that in a good way. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, I am a college graduate with a teaching degree, a business founder and seller, and a father of two children with my wife Stephanie; life has been full and somewhat adventurous, but finding Maine remains a high watermark in my life.

Sometimes easy is not always best

A recent Wall Street Journal article said that Nevada was joining more than a dozen other states and dropping the parallel parking requirement from its driver’s license test. No more will the nervous determination of that first-time driver be challenged. Many of us remember that moment when we shifted to reverse, turned our head and […]

The next greatest generation?

“A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility,” Tom Brokaw once wrote. I believe this quote from Brokaw’s book, The Greatest Generation, could now be amended given the times we’re in. The words “praise” and “presence ” would replace the words “lament” and  “absence”. I believe when […]