Sentence of Dave

My 88 pound son made and ate one dozen fresh strawberry/raspberry-blackberry jam/chocolate syrup/whipped cream crepes this morning (meanw...

I'm off sugar, carbs, and alcohol for a couple days and I've got nothing.

The 25th Annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip is in the books, another fantastic one-- thanks Whit!-- here are some of the things that happened:...

If you want to scramble your children's brains, sit them down and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind  . . . my son Alex's f...

The kids and I watched Breaking Bad  this winter and then I got sick with the flu and watched a few episodes of Better Call Saul and I lo...

I hope I'm in Norfolk by now, and here is some promised drivel to peruse while I'm attending OBFT XXV . . . I consider TV a social e...

I always get a bit anxious right before I make the trip down to the annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip at my buddy Whitney's place in Kill...

The phrase that keeps running through my mind when I hear all this Trump insanity on the news-- the Iranian posturing, the Russia investigat...

We went and saw Ant-Man and the Wasp  today and while it's certainly an entertaining movie-- Paul Rudd does his usual spot-on job at p...

I finished two powerful and poignant books (and thoroughly enjoyed both) on vacation that hammered home the exact reason you go on vacation-...

I will write something when the weather down here in Sea Isle City returns to its senses.

We've had fantastic weather at the beach this week-- so there's been plenty of skimboarding and boogie-boarding, tennis and basketba...

Our friend, colleague, and book club participant Nicole is heading to California with her husband, to teach in LA, and so for my book club c...

My experience with The Strokes is probably similar to most: I loved Is This It (both   the music and the album cover--but complained that ...

Sun, sand, surf, seafood, salt, etc.

One of the simple pleasures of a week at the shore is utilizing the outdoor shower-- I've already used ours numerous times . . . after a...

I've taken a perfectly good first world car (a 2008 Toyota Sienna minivan) and turned it into a vehicle that would look appropriate dri...

My kids were all wound up this week, cooperating, rolling dice, painting miniatures and talking with each other in some arcane language . . ...

Planet Money 427: LeBron James is Still Underpaid  makes a strong economic case that James doesn't make nearly what he's worth-- he...

After some very sketchy research and a few stereotypical assumptions that are probably statistically true (conservatives ride motorcycles, l...