Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 23, 2015 in Blog, Restaurant Reviews, Travel |

Babbo is an upscale Italian restaurant in New York City’s West Village on Waverly Place, just steps away from Washington Square Park. A few nights ago, I dined there with three of my dearest and most respected friends — Stevan H. Goldman, Steve “Ice” Eisenstein, and Peter Alson.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 22, 2015 in Blog, Personal, Travel |

We all need a park. Each of us requires our own particular park bench, that profoundly personal place where we run off to, that temporary asylum away from it all, that emotional hideaway uniquely our own, that haven assuring some calm and comfort when we need it most.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 25, 2014 in Blog, Personal |

By the looks of me and the things that I do, one would assume I’m a Christian believer. Every year, I put up a Christmas tree and hang up pretty lights and decorations. I’ve committed most of the verses of popular Christmas songs to memory. I attend Christmas shows, even those held inside churches. I send out Christmas cards to friends and family. I buy presents. My heart is filled with joy. I even get sentimental.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 25, 2014 in Blog, Personal |

When it comes to celebrating Christmas, the secular humanist community is divided. That premise and its impacts will the basis of this two-part article.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 24, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

We are never prepared for what we expect. So wrote novelist James A. Michener. That thought sums up the life-transforming excursion in pursuit of self-awareness, some might even say an identity, ventured by writer Cheryl Strayed back in 1995, when she embarked upon a grueling three-month, 1,100-mile journey entirely by foot, along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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