Sentence of Dave

Tuesday morning, I got to the East Brunswick Library at 9:40 AM and it wasn't open yet, though the website claimed they opened at 9 AM, ...

Someday, I will tell the story of Pip and the Mace (it's set in Daytona, circa 1991 . . . a classic) but while today's post is about...

This week on our podcast  The Test , Cunningham forces Stacey and me to ponder how this leads to that . . . or how some things (or people) a...

Summer is waning fast, but if you still have time left to binge some quality stuff, I have two superlative recommendations for you; both are...

Last night, Catherine, Alex, Ian and I went to Red Bull Arena to watch Wayne Rooney and DC United take on the Red Bulls; Rooney put in an un...

In the spirit of George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" proclamation, I'm claiming victory in my goal to improve...

No time for abstractions and bombast today, I'm back from vacation and battling a horde of cave crickets inside my beautifully designed ...

Mark Kurlansky's book  The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell  is the perfect beach read if you are at the Jersey Shore (which I am) ...

Last night, the LED placard on the side of the Springfield Inn advertised three special events: 1) $3 COORS LIGHT  4 PM to Close 2...

If you found some solace in the Manafort verdict and Cohen guilty plea, and you think now Trump and his followers are feeling the pressure, ...

Earlier in the summer, when I was on vacation with my family and my cousins, Catherine and I only made it through one set of LeCompt-- the b...

I often have a sinking sensation--  when I am stuck in traffic or taking a hot shower on a cold day or eating take-out food with disposable ...

Best day of vacation ever: cold, windy and cloudy at the beach . . . I had to wear a sweatshirt for the first time in months.

Fleetwood Mac is good music to listen to while driving to the beach, so I played "Rumours" for my kids earlier in the summer and t...

This week on The Test , match wits and financial acumen with the ladies as I test them on the net worth of various wealthy (and not so w...

Tuesday night just before soccer practice began, Carl -- our visitor from the Bronx (through the Fresh Air Fund)-- fell and skinned his knee...

My son Alex told me a few weeks ago-- after a debacle with a used Chinese cell-phone-- that I should not offer him any options, I should jus...

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World -- An Us  by Richard O. Prum is one of tho...

I've been spinning my wheels lately in my digital music studio, working on lots of projects but never quite finishing anything, but ...

The married couple from Nicaragua that cleans our house, who sought political asylum here in 2005 and have been issued yearly work permits f...