Cheez Its on the Delta flight

“The Fate of the Free World is Hanging in the Balance” – Is it? Is it really?

The Competition I have taken one more small step towards writing with a capital W and have joined a writing competition, organized by The Write Practice. It is as amateur as amateur writing competitions get – ~300 entries, $300 first place prize – but it felt like a natural next step for me. It’s great to [...]

Two boys make the most of a summer day

One of the great things about Brooklyn Heights is that people leave boxes of lightly-used books on the steps of their brownstones for anyone to take. Here’s my latest haul: Artemis, Andy Weir (author of The Martian) The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace I left the books untouched for a few weeks before I [...]

Joe had everything he could ever dream of in Heaven… and still he wasn’t happy

Williamsburg and Greenpoint (mostly)

Uniquely New York I linked a while back to Ranjan Roy’s The Sweetgreen-ification of Society. This was primarily what grabbed my attention: “We are losing the spaces we share across socioeconomic strata. Slowly, but surely, we are building the means for an everyday urbanite to exist solely in their physical and digital class lanes. It used [...]

Juicing the stats with my first ever guest post