Sentence of Dave

Ian has discovered the joy of lying: last week at soccer camp he had five kids (all older than him) searching the playground for a yellow p...

I love this fact and now I've read it twice, so it must be true: the first personal computer was sold by Neiman-Marcus and it was calle...

Catherine bought an antique dresser from the town furniture man (although she can't remember how old it is-- so who knows if it's re...

I've finished Robert V. Remini's slightly liberal A Short History of the United States (336 pages short) and I'm working my way ...

I think Catherine and I were the last people on earth to see The Hangover , but no one ruined the gags-- and the movie is a rare thing, a ...

Here's something funny to try: after your wife cooks you an elaborate (and delicious) meal and you've finished gulping it down, tak...

I clearly remember learning about the Boston Massacre in Mr O'Connor's class in junior high-- especially Crispus Attucks-- but I don...

Two things that I'm glad are no longer living on my body: 1) my award winning OBFT mustache -- for a look at it, visit http://gheorghe77...

I was able to polish off a book and a play on the Outer Banks Fishing Trip XVI: As You Like It by Shakespeare and The Three Stigmata of P...

I finished Elmore Leonard's new one, Road Dogs , which wraps up Jack Foley's story-- the guy George Clooney played in Outta Sight , ...

My friend Rob manages a silk-screening office and I gave him a great suggestion, so let's see if he follows through-- and I thought of t...

A few Outer Banks Fishing Trip highlights (in no particular order) 1) Bill sings karaoke to a teeny-bopper song he doesn't know the wor...

Driving and swimming have something in common: for most, once they are adequate, they consider themselves expert, and they never seek inst...

The Rutgers Swim Club is already a retro-looking place, with a flat roofed blue and white pool shack and a tether-ball court, but when my so...

My father went overboard and bought a fourteen pound lobster, which the man at the fish market said was over a hundred years old-- and it wa...

There will come a time-- in a dozen years or so-- when it will be tempting to teaching my students the wrong things, as this will give my ow...

Two successful hikes on the Cape: the first was to Coast Guard Beach in Eastham-- which is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore-- and we...

I totally forgot about the scene in E.T. when E.T. gets drunk on Coors and his brain is connected to Elliot's brain, and so Elliot, who ...

For the first time ever, I had a beer at the Chatham Bars Inn, which I suppose has the best view in Chatham, but it always seemed too elegan...

Some numbers to remember: 1) it is over 300 miles and takes five hours to drive from Bolton Valley, Vermont to Cape Cod-- I always think i...