Sentence of Dave

Full disclosure: we would have avoided waiting hours in Chilamate for the student protests to dissipate if I wouldn't have been "on...

I'm tired and there's too much to report today . . . I will do a full summary tomorrow, but you'll be happy to know we discovere...

We did our last excursion in the Chilamate region this morning, or so we thought-- we took a hike in the spectacular Tirimbina Wildlife Refu...

Serious rain last night and this morning in Chilamate, which was a good thing for both the jungle and our river rafting trip-- we charged do...

Long day in Chilamate so this sentence is going to be rambling and utilitarian; we slept through a 6.1 earthquake, had the best breakfast ev...

At 3 am this morning we took an uber to Newark airport, then a flight to Ft. Lauderdale-- which was delayed-- then we just caught the connec...

If you've got a broken toenail that is painful to the touch and needs removing, is it better if you do the clipping yourself or should y...

Beth Macy's book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America  puts a human face on addiction, recovery, prescr...

I thought I learned this lesson many years ago, in college, when I ate at the Wendy's Superbar before an intramural football game and pu...

Last night we tried some new things from Deli Garden: two types of chicken korma-- one was peppery and the other one had some coconut in it ...

My town has banned plastic bags and while this feels like a good thing, there are actually a number of problems with this small step toward ...

I was very wrong when I thought that Donald Trump-- laughingstock and punchline, bankrupt buffoon-- could never be elected president; I trie...

If there were some sort of Emmy or Tony for HVAC guys, I would award it to Steve Maruscsak Heating & Cooling-- not only did they come in...

A day full of First World Problems: torrential downpours, a sick child, a visit to the doctor, a visit to the blood lab, a broken ductless m...

David Frum's book How We Got Here: The 70's . . . The Decade That Brought You Modern Life-- For Better or Worse takes a "conse...

Last presidential election, I was so frightened by a Donald Trump Presidency that I broke from my normal silliness of always voting for the ...

Yesterday was the end of the year picnic (my partner and I performed well in the annual corn-hole tourney-- we double lost in the finals bec...

My younger son turned fourteen today and his birthday also commemorates the approximate purchase of our current home-- and what a fourteenth...

My rule-of-thumb for jazz is this: if there are lyrics, it probably sucks . . . and this holds true for a song I heard on WBGO this afternoo...

Everyone in my office is talking about the HBO show Chernobyl,  and while I tried to avoid it-- I watched a few minutes of the first episode...