In the past two decades, Williamsburg has built a conflicted reputation: With the onset of gentrification, what had been a patchwork of ethnic enclaves was infiltrated by a downwardly-mobile vanguard of artists and hangers-on. Renovations were made, storefronts opened, rent prices began to climb, and a new dynamic began to take hold in this gritty [...]

The most memorable taxi ride I’ve ever taken was a twenty minute drive to John Paul II International Airport in Poland. After an extended week spent lounging in the countryside suburbs of Gdansk, carousing through the bars and dance floors of Sopot, eating my way through most of Krakow and observing All Saint’s Day at [...]

A widower doesn’t ask much of the world. He does, however, have a lot of questions. My biggest question, of course, is: What does a widower do with his free time? I never realized what a depressingly lonely activity watching cable news every night is until I started doing it by myself. Beyond the founding [...]