Image via Pixels Many individuals often find themselves in financial predicaments, not due to a lack of resources or opportunities, but due to their mindset about money. From feeling trapped in a cycle of financial scarcity to experiencing stress over financial...
Dr. Arnold Heller
How Advanced Process Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Business Efficiency
For any business to be sustainable, it must operate efficiently and cost-effectively. One way to ensure that your business is performing optimally is by employing advanced process intelligence solutions. Below, Marcus Lansky of Abilitator shares how these solutions...
Alaska Sea Cruise and Land Tour, June 12 – 24, 2012: Fun in the Land of the Midnight Sun
My friend Patty Morrison and I visited Alaska on a sea and land tour June 12 – 24, 2012. This trip preceded web site www.arnoldheller.org and any travel writing interest. The forgotten pictures were recently found and organized into a highly recommended tour using...
Two Bridges Park: A Garden of Earthly Delights
I moved to the Lofts Apartments on Nov. 4, 2012. While directing the movers to my new apartment, I noticed a sign across the street that was standing before a long, deep strand of trees. Coming: Perimeter Center East Park. The park, as the years passed, and did not...
Proposal: Construct the Ashford Highline Viaduct, an Elevated Linear Park, to Transform Downtown Dunwoody
This proposal was first published on Dec. 12, 2014 after attending my 50th high school reunion in Newark, NJ and experiencing the Highline on a day trip into New York City. New York Highline up the West Side I loved the Highline’s ability to influence development...
Ten Best Happy Hours in Dunwoody’s Perimeter Center Area – Updated April 10, 2023
One of my most popular web pages the past five years has been the list of ten best happy hours in Dunwoody’s Perimeter Center Area. My friend Patty Morrison and I compiled it as a summer project and it has been periodically updated. Google defines happy hour as a...
What Role does Maintenance Play in Constituting and Defining Luxury Apartment Living? Example – The Flats at Dunwoody’s Perimeter Place
I lived at the Lofts Apartments in Dunwoody, GA for ten and a half years and moved to the Flats @ Perimeter Place on March 1, 2023. The first seven years at the attractive Lofts, now part of the Drexel Collective and located on Perimeter Lofts Circle in Dunwoody’s...
Global Studies Curriculum Update: Nationalism & Imperialism, Collective Security, International Trade, and Russia, China, India, US, Germany & Japan – 2022 Comparisons
– Updated March 22, 2023 Unit 4: Nationalism & Imperialism The world as we knew it, and I taught it, changed on Feb. 24, 2022. Ultra-nationalism and imperialism made a comeback thanks to Vladimir Putin and Russia. Autocratic Russia invaded democratic Ukraine to...
Think Outside the Box for Ways to Keep Your Teen Engaged After School
After-school activities for your teen can be, and many times should be, more than just fun. Teens can spend their after-school hours with activities that can inspire and give them direction. They can increase their self-esteem, build social skills and connections and...
2023 Holocaust Event – Nate Leipciger, Reflections & Remembrance
https://amyisraelchaiatlanta.org/reflections-and-remembrance/index.html
2022 Atlanta Sister Cities Annual Report
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Where to Stay as a Digital Nomad: Top US Cities to Explore
As long as there’s internet access and a working computer, digital nomads can work from just about anywhere, including coffee shops, public parks, breweries, and at home. This provides nomads with the flexibility to work whenever and wherever they’re most...
Marketing Your Small Business to Generate Holiday Sales
The holidays are fast approaching, and it’s a great time to think about your small business marketing strategy! Even if you don’t sell seasonal items, offering special deals can help bring more shoppers through the door and turn them into loyal customers....
Useful Apps for Entrepreneurs to Save Time
Image via Pexels Most entrepreneurs in Arkansas work long hours to build their brand and establish themselves in the marketplace. A good idea or product takes months worth of practical planning, administration, and marketing to become successful. An...
Moving: How to Decide What’s Important to You in a New Location
Image: Pexels If you could move anywhere you want, where would you go? How would you choose a location? There are several factors to consider if you’re thinking about moving and don’t have a specific location in mind. Even if you know the...
Atlanta Sister Cities Commission Proposal to Mayor Dickens and the Office of International Affairs to Develop a Series of Murals in Atlanta City Hall
Introduction: Murals, according to Google: Traditionally beautify public and private spaces by adding splashes of color and meaning to bare walls Record and memorialize historical events Become a medium for political or social commentary over time Provoke and...
12 Common Internet Myths And Misconceptions
Original Article: https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/common-internet-myths-and-misconceptions The internet can be a somewhat confusing construct at times. It can be anything and everything to someone looking for information, yet at the same time, it feels as...
2022 Holocaust Remembrance: Faith & Fortitude – Ella Blumenthal
https://vimeo.com/669040888 ELLA BLUMENTHAL was born in Warsaw, Poland, on August 15, 1921. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Ella and her family were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. Ella was a direct witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She survived in hiding at...
How to Keep Your Home Office Safe and Secure
Article Source: https://www.cablecompare.com/blog/how-to-keep-your-home-office-safe-and-secure Working from home, an arrangement that was once a luxury for just a select few individuals has become a necessity for millions as the Covid-19 pandemic rages through...
Critical Tips to Benefit Every Entrepreneur and Small Business Owner
Passion is important when it comes to starting and running a business. But there is so much more required if you plan to succeed in the long term. You must develop good habits and strategies that benefit your business and team, and you must never stop growing as an...
2021 Annual Ra’anana / ASCC Report
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Avoiding Burnout and Keeping Yourself Healthy When Raising a Special Needs Child
Authored by Gwen Payne Dr. Arnold Heller shares the following article to help you determine when you’re experiencing fatigue from caring for your special needs child in Dunwoody, Georgia, and provides a framework you can use to get yourself...
2021 Visions: What opportunities do you see in the Upcoming 5782 Jewish New Year?
My son Sasha Heller is an amateur DJ named Fried Sushi who showcases his drum and bass music mixes on web site www.deltadubproductions.com. His most recent dub step mix is a global hit called 2021 Visions that parallels this column’s theme of opportunities for...
Everything Immigrants Need to Know About Supporting Family Back Home
Authored by Gwen Payne atwellparents.com Immigrants offer valuable cultural and economic contributions to their host country, but what about the country they leave behind? Supporting your community and family back home can have a very positive impact on your country....
Eleven Generations of the Heller Family in America 1: B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky – Tradition
The B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky - Tradition It is a Jewish tradition to Bar Mitzvah boys at age thirteen and Bat Mitzvah girls at age twelve to thirteen. Due to the Pandemic, young Kyra Polinsky was facing her fourteenth...
Passover 2021: Celebrate Freedom from Four 2020 Plagues
Theme: What does freedom look like to me this year? The Passover holiday is symbolic for the Ten Plagues the Hebrews cast upon the Egyptians to win their freedom from Pharoah. The Passover holiday for 2021 is symbolic to me for freedom from four 2020 plagues: Donald...
America’s Dark Age and Great Aberration: The Trump Administration 2016 – 2021
Introduction: I salute American political cartoonists, M. Wuerker (Politico.com) and Mike Luckovich (AJC.com) in particular. Political cartoonists envision what we’re thinking and feeling in real time, sometimes at risk to themselves. I also thank,...
Eleven Generations of the Heller Family in America 2: B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky – Celebration
B’nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky – The Celebration My nephew Craig Polinsky and his lovely wife Tara are both medical doctors with a practice in Deerfield Beach, FL. The Pandemic caused the postponement of their daughter Kyra’s Bat Mitzvah...
2020 Annual Ra’anana / ASCC Report
2021 Annual Holocaust Remembrance Event: Miracles & Memories – Stephen Jacobs, Holocaust Survivor
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Life During the Pandemic: A Ten-Month Long Blur of Days
The Atlanta Jewish Times, for major Jewish holidays, asks about forty Atlanta Jewish community leaders to submit 250-word columns on a common theme. For Hanukah 2020, the concept was; As a Candle Gives its Light to the Other, We Are Reminded How Our Own Light...
Black Lives Matter: Race – America’s Original Sin and Crucible
Google defines (1) original sin as Christians being inherently sinful because of Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden. Original sin (2) is a wrong of great magnitude as in the case of American slavery that began in 1619. Crucible is a melting pot used for...
Opening up the Floodgates to a New Normal
Published in the Atlanta Jewish Times, April 15, 2020 Last year I wrote that the Hebrew’s ten plagues was the first recorded use of applied terror to achieve political goals. The plagues brought about the Exodus from Egypt, and after the wandering, the ancient...
Mr. Darryl Aftel, Oct. 21, 1950 – Jan. 21, 2020: Memorial for a Beloved Teacher, Coach, and Registrar
I was a colleague of Darryl Aftel for over twenty years and attended a memorial held for him on March 8, 2020, at the Sutton Middle School. All came to celebrate his contribution to special education instruction, athletics, and Northside / North Atlanta High School’s...
The Beaches: Atlantic & Neptune Beach – a Tale of Two Sweet Beach Villages, Feb. 23 – March 1, 2020
The State of Florida, as partially evidenced in my AIA travel series, has countless attractive pockets to discover. It’s said that “if you haven’t found yours yet, you haven’t looked hard or long enough”. As one who’s explored the three coasts in depth, I agree,...
2020 Annual Holocaust Remembrance Event
Am Yisrael Chai 2020 RESCUE and REFUGE Keynote speaker:Rabbi Bent Melchior The Am Yisrael Chai event, "Rescue and Refuge” was a powerful and meaningful program attended by more than 900 people. Keynote speaker, Rabbi Bent Melchior was outstanding. Thanks to Ella...
What Fuels My Fire
I have been inspired and self-actualized by two major life forces. I am a teacher at heart so the first has been a life-long search for information – learning history to understand the present, identifying trends and phenomena to better prepare for the future,...
Memorial to Andrew Beard, 1947 – 2018: Publication of His Book of Poems Never to Catch a Butterfly
I only met Andy Beard three times so maybe it’s questionable why I am honoring his life with a memorial web page and publication of his book of poems, Never Catch a Butterfly. Regardless, Andy gave me his handwritten book of poems to read and he died before I could...
Myrna Cohen, Vice Chair, Visits Ra’anana November 14, 2019
Myrna Cohen, Vice Chair of the Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister City Committee, visited Ra’anana, Atlanta’s sister city in Israel, on November 14, 2019. The major aim of her visit was to support the Daffodil Project by planting five hundred daffodil bulbs to honor the memory...
Dunwoody, GA, 2019: My Ten Favorite Places Around Town
Given the popularity of my web page that lists ten good happy hour places in Dunwoody’s Perimeter Mall area – see www.arnoldheller.org/homepage/dunwoody-perimeter-area-ten-good-happy-hour-places.html – permit me to list my ten favorite places that make Dunwoody...
Chef Chris Lanter, Cache Cache, and Aspen, Colorado
My son Sasha Heller, a newspaper designer and journalist, lived in Denver, Colorado from August 2018 to January 2022. Sasha and I are pictured standing in front of Chris Lanter’s smoker eyeing delicious briskets to be sliced up in his Home Team BBQ restaurant in...
Forgiveness in the Dark Age of Trump
Psychologists define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you (Google). On Yom Kippur, Jews ask God to forgive their sins and atone by fasting to learn that repentance is...
Iberian Odyssey 7: Porto – Amazingly Like Lisbon
Porto City Map Except for port wine, I’d barely heard of Porto and it was not on my radar until Myrna Cohen, my travel agent, suggested that John and I fly home from Porto and drop the car off there. We’re very glad she did because Porto, as we would learn, is...
Iberian Odyssey 6: Lisbon – One of the Great Cities of the World
We drove from Faro to Lisbon, about 200 miles, much along the coast but more over very hilly terrain. Given that Portugal is about as big as Pennsylvania and has a population of 10.6 million, the ride took about six hours. It was worth every minute. I’d waited my...
Iberian Odyssey 5: Faro, Portugal: Sweet Seaside City That’s Easy to Fall in Love With
The drive from Malaga to Faro, Portugal, about 300 miles, was visually interesting and fun. I love driving along water features and this trip supplied plenty of opportunities. Faro, Portugal, has 64,000 people living in the city proper, and 118,000 metro-wide making...