“Experience keeps a dear [i.e. expensive] school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast, I confess feeling an odd sense of excited foreboding. As a New Jersey expatriate — I followed an Arkansas girl home from school and never looked back — I haven’t lived there since college but haven’t entirely lost my feeling for the state either. The place where you spent your first 20 years leaves an indelible mark. Having spent parts of every summer of my childhood on …