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Posted on February 2, 2021

The Case for Opening Up: How New York City Restaurants Can Bounce Back

Governor Cuomo's recently announced that NYC restaurants can open at 25% capacity starting on Valentine's Day. I'm not satisfied.

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

All You Need is an Internet Connection

What did you say to yourself around April 15th? How about March 2nd? I keep trying to log my memory for what my previous self thought at different stages throughout this pandemic. In February, when most people first started hearing the rumblings of it all, I thought this whole thing was just being exaggerated and …

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Posted on January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

My Top Book Recommendations from 2018

Right around Christmas time, an old coworker reached out asking me to send him a list of the best books I read in 2018. Off the top of my head I sent him 10 books, in no particular rank or order, that I really enjoyed this past year. Since then, I thought it would be …

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Posted on May 24, 2018May 24, 2018

Latest Book Recommendations

I've been on a bit of a tear recently with the books I'm reading, so a lot of recos coming your way (but only two today) . I had to take a break from the typical non-fiction informationcal books that I love to consume and finally wind down with a nice fictional book that I …

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by Kyle Brennan

I got this book free for subscribing to Word on Fire, the Catholic media organization founded by Bishop Robert Barron. (Yes, free books are a perk of religious media subscriptions ;) I picked up this book at a Little Free Library near my house. It was short, and it was free, which were basically my only criteria. I decided to flip through it quickly and sure enough, I finished it in a day. The Seven Storey Mountain is Thomas Merton’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. Born in France in 1915 to a pair of artist parents who weren’t especially religious, he spent his teenage years in Douglaston, NY, and eventually landed at Columbia University. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry book review 📚 I get a shit ton of book recommendations. Most I politely file away. You may have noticed my recent turn toward Christianity. Don’t worry, I’m not turning into some Bible-thumbing Jesus freak. But I am more curious than ever, so consider this me following that curiosity wherever it leads. After reading Mere Christianity, I went down the Christian apologetics rabbit hole, which eventually led me to the legendary Timothy Keller. Well, suffice to say, this is one of the best novels I’ve ever read. Just a masterpiece from beginning to end. This place was made for guys like me📚
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