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Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Years
A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe Defoe’s book, a fictional recounting of one man’s reflections during the plague of London, 1665. It begins with the plague beginning to ravage London and the protagonist weighing whether he should flee to the country as so many people of means are doing or stay and stick…
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O’Neill’s Chaos
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the SixtiesTom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring A reporter is assigned to write an article on the Manson murders and Hollywood for a movie magazine. He somewhat reluctantly begins to dig into the story and finds that things don’t exactly add up. He gets interested, he…
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Review: Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s BerlinErik Larson Dad book all the way dealing with that most dad book of dad book times, World War II, specifically Hitler’s rise to power as seen through the eyes of the American diplomat William Dodd and his family. This is an…
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Review: Kristof and WuDunn’s Tightrope
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Maybe you knew that Nicolas Kristof grew up on semi-rural Oregon, and that the vast majority of those he went to high school with are now either dead or in jail, but I didn’t. This book, where Kristof and Wu Dunn use the stories of…
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Corona Diaries Day 7 — My Dark Moments, My Better Moments
This is part of a series of posts chronicling the Coronavirus / Covid19 outbreak in New York City as seen by me, a father husband and lawyer living in Brooklyn. See them all on the main Corona Diaries page. March 20, 2020 No school today, the teachers were taking a minute to regroup, so we were largely…
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Corona Diaries Day 6 — 2 Kids, 2 Careers
This is part of a series of posts chronicling the Coronavirus / Covid19 outbreak in New York City as seen by me, a father husband and lawyer living in Brooklyn. See them all on the main Corona Diaries page. March 19, 2020 Tough one to get through today. Spent basically all day alone with the kids, the…
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Corona Diaries Day 5 — What We Can, and Cannot, Control
This is part of a series of posts chronicling the Coronavirus / Covid19 outbreak in New York City as seen by me, a father husband and lawyer living in Brooklyn. See them all on the main Corona Diaries page. March 18, 2020 Yes, home schooling is stressful and yes, it is hard to focus and get work…
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Corona Diaries Day 4 — Home with the Kids
This is part of a series of posts chronicling the Coronavirus / Covid19 outbreak in New York City as seen by me, a father husband and lawyer living in Brooklyn. See them all on the main Corona Diaries page. March 17, 2020 St. Pats day, but it really doesn’t feel like it. My first day home all…
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Corona Diaries Day 3 — Last Day in the Office
This is part of a series of posts chronicling the Coronavirus / Covid19 outbreak in New York City as seen by me, a father husband and lawyer living in Brooklyn. See them all on the main Corona Diaries page. March 16, 2020 This is a crazy, crazy, crazy anxiety producing time. We’re in lockdown mode here at…
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Corona Diaries Day 2 Changing Routines
This is part of a series of posts chronicling the Coronavirus / Covid19 outbreak in New York City as seen by me, a father husband and lawyer living in Brooklyn. See them all on the main Corona Diaries page. March 15, 2020 Already you can feel a different vibe in the city. While yesterday the park…
Milo and the Calf 