Archive - Cathedral Effect

A Eulogy for Grandpa

Sep 13 •

August 2024

Cookbook Entry #1: Lemon Garlic Kale Salad

Aug 6 •

April 2024

A Catholic Goes To Non-Catholic Mass

Given the demographics in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, nearly all of the masses near my apartment were in Spanish.

Apr 25 •

October 2023

A Wedding in India

The collective effect of my experience in India was one of time travel - I legitimately felt like a child again.

Oct 31, 2023 •

I was at a wedding last year in Florida when an older gentleman sitting next to me introduced himself as the father of one of the groomsmen.

Oct 3, 2023 •

August 2023

Breakup Diaries

Non-fiction, sadly

Aug 23, 2023 •

July 2023

A Day at the Gym

Published on Soaring Twenties • Jul 7, 2023

June 2023

After getting off the overnight bus in San Francisco, he called Dette again, only to reach her voicemail for the third time that day.

Jun 2, 2023 •

May 2023

A Pilgrimage to Ravenna

It feels a bit odd calling my trip to Ravenna a pilgrimage, an antiquated word that implies superstition or the Middle Ages.

May 21, 2023 •

October 2022

The Visitors to Everwood Keep

Oct 21, 2022 •

July 2022

Some of my favorite scenes in cinema and literature are displays of clarity: Scrooge waking up as essentially a different person after the third ghost’s…

Jul 29, 2022 •

June 2022

The most distinct memory Jake has of his mom Eleanor is the way she would fidget with her hair whenever Jake got in trouble at school or brought home…

Jun 17, 2022 •

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