Sentence of Dave

I like  Weapons--  the new Zach Cregger film (he also directed the horror flick Barbarians ) even more than Sinners  and Mickey 17 -- which ...

You don't want to go down this road with your wife: arguing about who is more argumentative (although the Bradley Beach bar crawl with t...

My new episode of We Defy Augury--  "Bungle in the Jungle, Salt Life at the Beach" -- is (loosely) inspired by the Charles Portis...

Yesterday, I went to play pickleball at Wardell Park-- it's a fifteen-minute drive from the beach and a well-organized, busy place, but ...

Yesterday, I was sitting on the beach with Stacey and my wife and I had to pee and I didin't feel like going in the water because it was...

Daniel Boorstin was worried about "pseudo-events" and manipulative imagery back in 1962 and expressed this in his classic treatise...

Tana French's novel ,  Broken Harbor,  is a crime procedural wrapped inside a portrait of insanity balanced atop a real estate crisis —a...

Another beautiful fucking beach day-- for most of us . . . but not for the little blonde girl who wandered two beaches from her family (and ...

To get my wife to stop nagging me about my habit of swimming alone in the ocean when there's a riptide, I told her she could up our life...

Spending an extended amount of time in a different place and space has got to be good for my gradually atrophying brain-- I have to really p...

I just finished  The Trespasser  by Irish-American mystery writer Tana French-- this is the sixth book in her "Dublin Murder Squad...

A cool, cloudy day here at the beach so I'm back at the coffee shop-- but this time, taking some advice from my wife, I have ordered my ...

  In all my years of writing this blog, I have never once (until today) sat down in a hipster coffee shop, connected to the wifi, and wrote ...

Another perfect beach day . . . or near perfect: I pulled the wagon down early while Catherine was at the grocery store and got set up-- the...

Cat, Lola, and I are settling in to our beach rental in Ocean Grove . . . we had coffee this morning at Odyssey Coffee- which resides in the...

Yesterday, I finished my first (and perhaps last) P.D. James mystery novel, A Taste for Death , and while I enjoyed the central mystery and ...

  My new episode of We Defy Augury,   "From Sayreville to Sicily: The Effect of Setting on the Psyche,"  is (loosely) inspired by...

So I've listened to so much various music in the course of my lifetime--mainly jazz, indie rock, prog rock, alternative rock, punk rock,...

Although yesterday's car-buying process took nearly eight hours, it was still a walk in the park compared to last summer's fiasco --...

I would love to write a witty, profound sentence today, but this car-buying process is taking forever!