Sentence of Dave

Although it is certainly a shortcoming in my aesthetic sensibility, there is one thing for certain that I will never have any use for: the ...

The problem with cell-phones is their immediacy-- there is no time for detachment from the narrative, no time for revision, hyperbole, and e...

At the beach today, a fairly innocuous looking guy who claimed to be a journalism teacher at a high school in Pennsylvania asked if he could...

While walking home from my pick-up soccer game, I saw a great moment in youth sports: a shaggy haired kid who couldn't have been more t...

It's all how you phrase it: when I suggested (to save some money) that I could do some of the painting for our kitchen addition, my wif...

I just watched Tombstone , one of the movies all my friends had seen but me (now only Top Gun and The Big Chill remain) and it's like ...

Close call in Princeton: after eating a giant meal at Tortuga's Mexican Village ( I ordered three items instead of two, I couldn't ...

When I notice someone has the hiccups, I pretend there is a bug in their hair-- this usually gets people flustered, anxious and concerned . ...

In the locker-room after successful swim with my new Otterbox (a contraption which makes an Ipod submersible) I heard one old guy ask anothe...

On the way home from the beach yesterday (and there's no better way to decompress from a long weekend at the beach than by going to the ...

I might have had a better chance convincing the life guard who called me out of the ocean (which was clearly marked "No Swimming")...

Here are some things that happened during The Fifteenth Annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip that didn't happen during the other years:   1) ...

Which is a better metaphor for life-- baseball, soccer, or Dig-Dug?

As a kid, the closest thing to real magic is seeing someone walk into the ocean, sink down, and then slowly rise up, until it appears that t...

I will be truthful and tell you that this is not a fresh sentence-- I'm in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina and this sentence was writte...

Yesterday, when we returned from a day at the beach, there was a cryptic message on the phone from my grandmother (this isn't unusual as...

I would like to lose a few pounds before I gain a few pounds on vacation (I will not gain them back -- I will gain some entirely new pounds...

Today, I present four "firsts": 1) Alex caught his first fish;  2) Ian caught his first fish;  3) I monitored my first kid able to...

The recent salmonella-laden tomato scare reminded me of my favorite line in the 1978 camp classic film  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Sam ...

When I woke up this morning, I had a brief blissful moment of delusional consciousness . . . I thought that I didn't go out last night...