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We were in Sea Isle City when the "mandatory evacuation" for Cape May County was signed by the Governor, but apparently mandatory ...

So our communal beach vacation was going to culminate on Friday night in a frenzied bout of much anticipated frying (Michelle brought a de...

Since I use this blog as a back-up for my rather faulty memory , here are the things I need to remember for the next hurricane 1) get a smal...

I missed my big chance to feel the earth shake to the tune of 5.8 on the Richter scale because I was in the ocean supervising five children ...

Honeybees are from England . . . there were none in America until someone traveling to Jamestown brought some over . . . and before this Eur...

Didja know that you can live healthily on potatoes and milk-- the potato provides every nutrient except vitamin A and D-- and so Irish worke...

I have a habit of reading non-fiction books that force me to say the ever-annoying phrase "Didja know   . . ." followed by some in...

Everyone seems to have a top hundred list of something, and so here are my top hundred books (plus five bonus books in case you finish the t...

My Jeep does not have power windows nor does it have air-conditioning, and I am not very tall, so it's quite a reach for me to roll dow...

Brendan Gleeson has been in two recent thrillers that owe a lot to Quentin Tarantino . . . they both explore the interstitial time periods t...

A recent study done at The University of California asserts that people enjoy mystery and suspense stories more if the plot is spoiled . . ...

Alexandra Robbins' new book The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School doe...

My wife and I took a quick childless vacation to Philadelphia last week . . . a night of romance at The Thomas Bond House , a quaint, histo...

The plots of the HBO comedy Bored to Death are pretty thin, but you don't need a plot when you get to watch Ted Danson and Zach Galif...

There's nothing like getting your ass in gear for combating apathy and/or anxiety . . . and once you get your shit moving, all the othe...

No one wants to hear parents bragging about their kids, so I'll make this quick and then get to the conspiracy theories: my six year ol...

So last Monday night Catherine and I were supposed to see the new Planet of the Apes movie, which is called Rise of the Planet of the Apes ...

Due to yesterday's atrocious aphorism , The Sentence of Dave Board of Directors has decided (wisely) to cancel Aphorism Week . . . expec...

It's aphorism week here at Sentence of Dave, and here is #1: Follow your dreams, even if they lead you down into a deep, dark and stick...

Though over 1.5 million people live in Manhattan, it felt like a small town last week when we arrived at the 81st Street Subway Station an...