Sentence of Dave

I have often criticized the inane, vague, occasionally cryptic, occasionally matter-of-fact lyrics of the song "A Horse with No Name...

The heat is hot, and my brain is addled, and I wish I lived within walking distance of the ocean (the stupid Raritan River does nothing to c...

Today, I refereed three games in Monroe with Bill-- a grouchy old codger who is still running centers at age 80!-- and while there were a fe...

I just refereed a soccer match on a very large turf field, and the center ref-- Carlo-- is seventy-five years old! . . . I hate the phrase ...

My son graduated from Rutgers today —now we have an aerospace engineer in the family —and the last time I attended a Rutgers graduation was ...

In the last weeks of school, my wife randomly selects a king/queen for the day in her fifth-grade class-- so every kid gets a turn to be a c...

At some point after the summer, I totally forgot about my Big Weird Musical Project -- but no worries, now I have returned collecting and ca...

Friday afternoon, my wife and I hustled over to Clydz in New Brunswick-- the grungy hipster basement martini bar with the excellent happy ho...

Ray Nayler's sci-fi novel The Mountain in the Sea  is not an easy read, but contains plenty of (sea) food for thought-- the novel takes ...

Eleven years ago, the kids and I made a Mother's Day video called "A Day Without Mom"  and then my wife and the kids made a de...

Today, on our drive to Avenel for a funeral service, it seemed like many of the people on the road operating motor vehicles had never done s...

For the first time in months, I really hustled up and down the court at 6:30 AM basketball-- and my hamstring felt fine-- and not only did I...

For Mother's Day, the boys and I are remaking a YouTube video that we filmed a decade ago called "A Day Without Mom"-- it'...

This was the question posed to me by my buddy Whitney while I was trying to cook dinner-- he's choosing "I'll Be Your Johnny on...

These days, I feel like new and creative ideas rarely surface in class, but today a senior offered something worth thinking about: the Briti...

I went to the post office and picked up the mysterious certified letter sent to me by the State of New Jersey, and it turns out I have NOT i...

I am finally home and drinking a cold beer after a taxing weekend: I reffed six games-- three on Saturday and three today-- and I worked thr...

I received a postal notice yesterday that the postal service unsuccessfully attempted to deliver a piece of certified mail from the State of...

I am still basking in the glow of last night's epic Knicks victory over the Hawks-- the Knicks were up 51 points at halftime-- a margin ...

Today, during passing time, I got knocked out of the way by a fast-moving student-- or I should say I got ushered aside by his white cane, b...