Sentence of Dave

I will entertain some high school students for ten months, as long as my town's school system takes my own children off my hands and ent...

Scott Barry Kaufman, an accomplished cognitive scientist who began his academic career as a special ed student relegated to the resource roo...

Greg Grandin's book  Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism  is giving me a headac...

So I'm at the Chinese restaurant with my dad and my brother and the waiter brings us little plates for our dumplings, and my little plat...

My nine year old son Ian had a rough time at the dentist on Monday; he had two teeth pulled-- or, as his pediatric dentist euphemistically p...

I'm not sure sure which is nerdier: actually playing a MMORPG or binge-watching a show about people who play a MMORPG.

If you need to watch something weird and funny, and you want to consume an entire season in one sitting (and you don't require A-list ac...

I was so enthralled by Don Winslow's brutal and intense semi-fictional account of America's war on drugs ( Power of the Dog ) that ...

You know you're on vacation when-- after a brisk run on the beach and a refreshing swim in the ocean-- you take a warm relaxing shower i...

Nine years ago in Sea Isle City, the Springfield Inn had an electric bull and for five dollars you could ride as much as you liked, so we ro...

The weather has been so clear, crisp and sunny in Sea Isle City the past week that I'm looking forward to some rain . . . do people who ...

While we were walking along Corson Inlet to the Strathmere Bay, to do some creature collecting on the sandbars, we saw a guy throw a dragnet...

If you like your novels with extra torture, then read Don Winslow's fantastic, Ellroy-esque tale of Mexican drug cartels, DEA agents, an...

Though it's been a three year hiatus, I've still got the remarkable ability to count to four at just the right moment in the bridge ...

According to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Te...

Art doesn't have to be the way it's portrayed in the inconclusive and unsettling documentary My Kid Could Paint That . . . I just wa...

I met a man named Bill Rainwater yesterday . . . I wish I had a cool surname like that.

This sentence would be much better if I came to the end of three  trilogies-- which is entirely in the realm of possibility, because the boy...

Here is the necessary paperwork-- copied directly from the reminder e-mail-- so that my son and his friends can kick around a ball on a gras...

Monday was a rude awakening for me . . . a horrible wriggling thought wormed its way into my brain: summer is going to end . . . this awful ...