Sentence of Dave

The number one reason to have children: you can send them off to ask questions of people you would never talk to . . . for example, some d...

We spent the first five days at the beach at the beach -- the boys were at each other's throats in the condo, and so we would get on the...

I finished Richard Ford's "Independence Day" last week at the beach-- the book that precedes "Lay of the Land" and I...

I've been thinking about a name for my new music project (which isn't starting for a while, despite the songs being written, because...

You know the kind of guy that keeps getter better looking with age-- more distinguished and ruggedly handsome with every passing year . . . ...

Yesterday (and I'm pretty sure very few people in North America can claim this) Dom and I were lucky enough to hear two different bands ...

The cliche is that time passes slowly when you are young, and that each summer day is an eternity unto itself, and that as you get older the...

My oldest son Alex developed early as far as language goes-- he was speaking in sentences before he was two years old, but Ian is precocious...

While at the science museum, my three year old son Ian and I followed the instructions and positioned our faces next to the monitor and lis...

190 pound man + very little knowledge of the butterfly stroke + repeated attempts to do the butterfly stroke after reading a chapter in a sw...

Sixteen levels of cabinetry, four levels of granite-- which needs to be tested for radon-- Silestone, Cambria, tile, wood, bamboo . . . the ...

Mice don't get Alzheimer's disease, which is annoying, but luckily, scientists figured out how to genetically alter them so they do-...

I'm pretty sure Alex and Ian have come to a tacit agreement that they do not want any other children horning in on their deal, so they&#...

If you live in Jersey and you've been down the shore, then you've got to read Richard Ford's take on the whole thing in his new ...

Beer in a disposable aluminum can . . . what will they think of next?

For a good massage, ask for Sabrina at the Chinese Acupressure place on 27 between Third and Fourth Street in Highland Park-- the price is r...

I had an idea for a new blog-- One Hundred Portraits of Dave-- but I haven't followed through; the premise is that I draw 100 quick sel...

On my quest to plug the gaps in my pop-culture erudition, I tried to watch Top Gun , but I only made it half-way through-- I reached my high...

If you've got some spring in your step, if you see the glass as half full, if you've been whistling away and looking on the bright s...

I'm not sure if The Hold Steady is sincere or not, but they seem like a Spinal Tap version of Bruce Springsteen, updated for the times,...