Sentence of Dave

Stephen King's recent novel Joyland  is a little book with some big scenes-- it takes place in 1973, at a haunted amusement park and ...

For all of you folks that have to work in the summer, here's a quick recap of my family beach vacation in Sea Isle City: 1) for severa...

One of the most important things in modern life is to know of a good car mechanic, which I do . . . but he's getting older . . . luckily...

When I was in middle school and high school, my two favorite authors were Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King-- I read everything they wrote; b...

Diligent readers may remember the risk assessment I did about the tree limb hanging precipitously over my back yard  . . . when I first saw ...

Stacey administers a test on acronyms, abbreviations and nicknames and we all do quite poorly-- including, ironically, Stacey; so give it...

I had a wonderful student last year in Composition class who was smart and outgoing and engaged and curious and generally wonderful to be ar...

So what? . . . so Dave loves chick lit  . . . so he's read three Liane Moriarty novels about Australian moms . . . does that make hi...

Since the advent of the smart-phone, there has been a spike in people stepping in dog-shit.

Two serial killers, obviously-- The Dollmaker and The Follower-- and though Michael Connelly's third Hieronymous "Harry" B...

Another fantastic Outer Banks Fishing Trip on the books . . . thanks again to Whit and the Martha Wood and everyone else involved; here are...

In ancient Greece, every party was a toga party . . . and I know this is weak, even as a shallow thought, but I'm still recovering...

I didn't finish Sy Montgomery's book The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness . . . it ...

Polo would be more like soccer if the horses were autonomous and didn't have people riding on top of them, directing them where to go.

Soccer would be more like horse-racing if all the players had little monkeys perched on their necks and the monkeys whipped the players in o...

This is my favorite episode of The Test so far; Cunningham, Stacye and I revisit "number sense" and things get fairly absurd . ...

Sometimes I eat so much at lunch that I feel like I won't be able to eat dinner, but when dinner finally rolls around, I'm hungry ag...

If you find an old snorkel at the beach, you can use it as a backscratcher (even if its pink).

Once again, while my family was enjoying the sun and sand, I read about  drug wars and torture : The Cartel is part two of Don Winslow's...

Though my inspiration for this song was Sam Quinones' book  Dreamland , which details America's opiate epidemic, the lyrics worked...