Sentence of Dave

I have jury duty today in New Brunswick. Coincidentally, my wife had it yesterday, and she reported that it was hot and crowded. At one poin...

My kids had an early dismissal from school yesterday, and so they went out to lunch with their friends. This would have been fine, except th...

This cold but lovely (Black) Friday morning, I took our dog Lola to the Rutgers Ecological Preserve for a run. Unfortunately, the Preserve w...

This morning, my wife insisted I taste her mashed turnips. She always makes a batch on Thanksgiving, in honor of her mom. So-- for fear of o...

Cave crickets (otherwise known as camel crickets, spider crickets, and sprickets) are an invasive species from China that may now outnumber ...

I covered a Drivers Ed class this morning, but there was a student-teacher so I didn't have to do anything but sit there (legally there ...

I'm a fan of Malcolm Gladwell, but even if you're not, his newest book is a good one. It's called Talking to Strangers: What We...

This past weekend, I was up at 3 AM three nights in a row. Each night was a different adventure. While it makes for good content, this is no...

My friend Alec got a hold of some tickets to the Rutgers/Ohio State game yesterday. His neighbor couldn't attend. The tickets were handi...

If I could tell you one thing, it would be this:  go see Bong Joon Ho's new movie. It's called Parasite.  The title is both litera...

I'm turning 50 in March, and I'm trying to preempt the stereotypical mid-life crisis-- so I've been running more in an attempt t...

I got up Thursday morning with the best intentions. I had been up late at the local open mic the night before (there was a guy proficient at...

George Orwell wrote what is arguably the best narrative essay in the English language. "Shooting an Elephant" was published in 19...

Slough House is not in Slough (but-- the joke is-- it might as well be). Slough is something a of laughingstock location. It's the Scran...

We've had a dog in our house since January 2012. First was our beloved black lab and Weimaraner Sirius. He was a great dog, and he died ...

I was doing a big clean out down in my study-- otherwise known as Greasetruck Studios-- and I decided I would take a crack at solving the my...

Every year at the end of October, there is a hellish week of school that combines two things that do not belong together: parent confere...

Once upon a time, there were opium wars. And reefer madness. The hippies and Timothy Leary did LSD. The disco folks snorted coke, and Marion...

There's an economic success story that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want to acknowledge: low wage workers have doubled thei...

This morning-- as a result of telling a co-worker that she was dressed like a real-estate agent-- I was forced to defend my fashion sense. I...