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  • Blog Post #19: French Frustrations

    One of my main goals this year is to improve my foreign language skills. If I had to score how I am going out of 10, 7 excluded, I would say a six. While I have been consistent on DuoLingo (21 day streak baby!), I am caught up in an annoying vortex of where to…

  • Blog Post #18: My 2 Favourite Apps

    My friend DC runs a daily blog about his life, which served as the inspiration for getting started on this. Last night I received his latest entry, where he asked his audience about what their two favourite apps were. You can see the post HERE. It had me thinking last night, what exactly are my…

  • Blog Post #17: NYC

    Today I fly out of New York City, and I wanted to give a quick review of my time here. If you don’t have much time and need to go, I’ll give you a review in one word: terrific. This is the third time I have visited the Big Apple, and I have now come…

  • Blog Post #16: Iowa

    Tuesday is politics day, and it would be irresponsible for me to not to talk about the Iowa Caucuses last night. If you’re reading this, you already know the two big things about it: 1) Trump won, and he won big and 2) it can get really, REALLY cold in Iowa. Going in, there was…

  • Blog Post #15: Good times

    Having a great time in New York.

  • Blog Post #14: JG

    Guilty! Missed out on finishing this yesterday. It is always so good to visit the Big Apple. Yesterday I visited my friend JG, who is equal parts hilarious and curious. We had a wonderful time. JG is quite an impressive person. He is a founder, unbelievably well connected, and most importantly, undeniably his own person.…

  • Blog Post #13: Playoffs

    Winter in the US, depending on where you are, can be pretty grim. One thing that cuts through that can be football. Right now I am watching Kansas City v Miami Dolphins duke it out in -17 degrees in Kansas. Way too cold for me, and apparently, way too cold for the Dolphins, who look…

  • Blog Post #12: NYC

    I’m not one for quotes, especially from books, but there are some exceptions. Here is (possibly) my favorite: The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world. Taken from F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The…

  • Blog Post #11: Debate Night

    The fourth (and perhaps final) Republican Primary Debate was on last night, and I half-heartedly tuned in last night while making dinner. For those out of the loop (which is now about 90% of people), the rules of the debate meant that Haley, DeSantis, Trump and Chris Christie qualified, while outsider Vivek Ramaswamy failed to…

  • Blog Post #10: Website

    Over the past 24 hours, I have building my website to share my blog. What struck me most was how much easier it has been to create than previous attempts; a few years ago I tried to create something similar, and it was a complex and ultimately unsuccessful task. A lot of this is due…