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The kids and I decided to go cheap and painful this year with my wife's birthday gift: next week, we are going to do all the cooking...

So here is my idea for a reality TV show . . . and I wish I had the gumption to actually do it: I tell my two children we are going to pay f...

It's doubly annoying: not only do I have to take a day off of school so I can accompany my son Ian on his Initial Orthodontic Workup...

Our friends Rob and Tammy (who moved from central Jersey to Vermont many many years ago) stopped by on Saturday and they reminded us that ba...

Finally got this song to sound the way I imagined it in my head.

I learned a new term during the latest 99% Invisible : a "hero prop" is an item in a film that has a life of its own and serves mo...

Let's all take a moment and celebrate ten years  of Sentence of Dave (ten years man! ten years! ten years . . . TEN . . . ten YEARS...

I felt slightly betrayed at the end of Roddy Doyle's new novel Smile . . .  the narrator and the narration unravel into a metafictional ...

It makes me extremely jealous that women have so many fabulous choices on how to accessorize their outfits-- scarves and brooches, feather b...

Yikes . . . I wrote a lot of words about Highland Park soccer over on Gheorghe:TheBlog . . . my post is called Machine vs. Anti-Machine , ...

I got on the scale this morning and the number seemed a little heavy-- normally I step on just wearing underwear but this morning I also had...

I finished up a new song: "Lost Souls" . . . it's what you get if you add "Here Come a Regular" and the Cheers ...

So that's all she wrote . . . after twenty-five years of monogamous bliss with my lovely spouse, we're calling it quits . . . not wi...

Enduring the stench in the men's locker room at the North Brunswick LA Fitness is a workout in itself.

Here's a million dollar idea for all the ambitious web entrepreneurs out there: there should be some kind of bot (or industrious group o...

Last night, I banged on the bathroom door and told my son Ian to brush his teeth and get out of the bathroom, because I wanted to shower--...

This week on our podcast  The Test , things get real . . . grievances are aired, alliances are formed, and amidst the chaos, I manage to adm...

On my car ride to work this morning, in order to lexically prepare for our big family trip to Costa Rica, I listened to several episodes ...

This one goes out to all the folks who aren't afraid to ask for a gratis tap water cup when they're eating fast casual . . . it'...

So here's the big follow-up to the first post ever commented on by an acclaimed author on Sentence of Dave  . . . I've noticed that ...