Sentence of Dave

If you've ever played RISK (The Game of Global Domination) and you want to globally dominate, then you're going to want to read my p...

I'd like to apologize for my sentence the other day about George R.R. Martin -- it's gauche to wish someone dead just because he wr...

A middle-aged rather distinguished African-American gentleman that I talk to at the dog park has been giving me some good jazz recommendatio...

While driving down South Fifth Avenue, the steep hill that descends to Donaldson Park, my son Ian and I saw three twenty-somethings rolling ...

I just finished A Dance with Dragons , George R.R. Martin's fifth book in his epic series A Song of Ice and Fire, and while it's n...

You'll have to head over to Gheorghe: The Blog  today to get your daily dose of Dave: I've ranked a bunch of sports on an objectivit...

I was at a party on Saturday night, and unfortunately there was a corn-hole set in the backyard, and this was unfortunate because I am VERY ...

The last thing any teacher needs during exam time is more work, but somehow the Story Contest Crew forgot this, and we had an end of the yea...

My eight year old son Ian is a hula hoop wizard - he can do two at a time, spin it around his knees, and walk while hula-hooping -- and this...

My son Ian is a member of "the piggy club," but his brother Alex is not -- despite the fact that many of his friends profess to be...

Although celebrity deaths don't usually occupy my consciousness, James Gandolfini's demise is slightly different . . . because no...

I started my summer reading with two rather boring tomes, or I find them boring -- which may be a shortcoming of my own brain, but at least ...

My wife and I noticed that everyone in our house was losing their temper more than usual (aside from the dog, who retreats upstairs when p...

It was 4:14 on Friday afternoon, and I was cutting up old deck boards so I could put them in contractor bags and toss them, when I saw a rus...

Last week, in order to expedite the demolition of my deck, I bought a "wrecking bar," and never in my life have I felt so macho ab...

How does Tank -- a self-professed child of Zion -- who claims to have been born outside of the Matrix, in reality, make the comment "...

How does one avoid becoming a caricature of oneself?

To be truly considered a man, do you need to go bankrupt at least once in your life?

It's been very humid lately here in central New Jersey, and so when I try to yank my socks onto my sweaty feet, I'm ripping one sock...

If I were a double amputee, I would definitely behave exactly like the man described in Erik Larson's fantastic non-fiction account of T...