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Ask a BUSY PERSON

Describe your How do you wind down at the

morning routine.
end of a busy day or week?
My mornings start
There are nights when my wife

with either my 1-year-old and I won’t eat dinner with the kids,
screaming or my 4 or
and after they go to bed, we’ll eat at a

6-year-old climbing
leisurely pace instead of stuing food
into bed with me and
in our mouth between refereeing the

my wife. If any of this
action. That’s the best wind down I’ve
happens any time after
got going these days!

6 a.m., I consider it a
What is one skill you would like to
success. From there, it’s
downstairs, cofee, help get
master, other than your own?

the kids ready for school, more I was going to say “woodworking,”
cofee, shower, out the door. Hectic. but I’d never work

Sometimes even fun.
any wood. I suppose I
would like to learn how

What is your favorite JEFF EDELSTEIN
to code. Probably keep
part of your job?
me relevant in another

Easily my favorite part is getting decade or two.
response from my columns. Happy Columnist, The Trentonian

responses, that is. I could do without What leisure
the bad ones! But getting a note from Edelstein may have grown up in
activities occupy
Parsippany, but he considers himself a
someone and having them let me know true-blue Mercer County man these days. A your time away
that they got a kick out of something I from work?
1995 graduate of Rider University, Edelstein
wrote? That’s great. There’s also been moved down here for good in 1999 when he Again, with the kids, my leisure
plenty of times when I’ve actually been activities usually revolve around them
accepted a position at The Trentonian.
able to help someone out, right a wrong, Through the years, he’s held numerous these days. But we’ve turned them, a
because I had the power of the paper be- positions at the paper, but the one he’s held bit. We can spend the day in Princeton,

hind me. Feels good to be able to do that.
for over a decade—columnist—is the one walking around, hitting a few parks,
he’s always wanted since he was a kid and grabbing lunch. Not a character in a

What are the qualities of a success- irst discovered the musings of syndicated furry suit in sight. When I manage to
ful person in your industry?
columnist Dave Barry. Today, Edelstein says sneak away—you know, tell my wife I
there’s no difference between him and Barry
It takes all types, but I’ll go back to had to work and stuf—well, I do love a
what I said earlier: Honesty and trust except for the latter’s collection of Pulitzer good book. Including Elmore up there,
Prizes, best-selling books, and the sitcom
both play a huge role.
some other favorite authors are Kim
based on his life.
In addition to his work at The Trentonian, Stanley Robinson and Robert Charles
What is your idea of Edelstein is also an adjunct instructor in the Wilson, a couple of sci-i writers.

a perfect day?
communications department at Rider. He’s
Used to be an old
been teaching there since 2004.
Something people don’t know

Elmore Leonard
He’s also dabbled in radio as a ill-in host about me is—
paperback, a beach chair,
on NJ 101.5, and he spent nearly three That at my core, I’m actually an

and maybe a cocktail or two. years on Fox 5 New York, where his columns introvert. Weird career choice, newspa-
These days it’s diferent with came to life in a weekly segment he wrote, per columnist, but it’s true. I’m not, nor
produced, and starred in called “Growls
the kids. When they have their ever have been, the life of the party. I
perfect days, those are
From the Man Cave.”
prefer small gatherings to large soirees.
Married to his wife Kelly for 14 years and
my perfect days.
Still love Elmore, father to three small children, he’s looking Name three things you need to
forward to continuing to make his life in
though. And the his adopted county. He’s grown too accus- survive on a desert island.
beach. And a A solid Wi-Fi connec-
tomed to tomato pie, calling that sinful morn-
cocktail or two.
ing treat pork roll instead of Taylor Ham, and tion, good pizza, and .
actually, that’s it. I’d
he’s inally mastered the Whitehorse Circle
no matter which direction he’s coming from.
be good to go.

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