Sentence of Dave

Yesterday began with such promise: I defeated my nemeses in the NYT Mini Crossword (Stacey, Whitney, and Zman) which is a rarity and cause f...

Jeffrey Selingo's Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions  is a great book-- well-written, compelling, and chock full of t...

I'm a little logy from staying up late last night but it was worth it-- Rutgers beat Clemson for their first NCAA tourney win in 38 year...

In the past decade, I've tamed Awkward Dave to some degree, but he still occasionally rears his ugly, awkward head; one of these times ...

       Like many people, I'm struggling to adapt to the new pandemic world order-- but I'm doing my best to learn new tricks; for ex...

Yesterday, I was running late-- of course-- because we had just sprung ahead for fucking Daylight Saving Time and though I was bleary-eyed, ...

 This is what I learned yesterday: don't install a screen door on a windy day.

Yesterday was the last day of the winter men's league-- and while most of the guys are signing up for the spring session, I will be play...

Lydia Millet's novel  A Children's Bible  is a modern, environmental take on the classic-- finally!-- and while Biblical elements ab...

  This snow is lovely, dark, and deep.

Jessica Bruder's book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is an eye-opener to another America, an America of a wand...

Quite a pair of birthdays for Alex and me: on Alex's birthday had a 1:30 PM appointment at the DMV for his road test with a borrowed car...

I share my birthday with a cat named Seuss a man I respect for his creative juice his rhymes were tight, his mind was loose-- and while the ...

The mud season is here (and the rain along with it) and the dog park has quickly transformed from a winter wonderland into a swamp-- but the...

When I tell people to read some Allie Brosh -- a young lady who writes primitively illustrated memoirs that are so funny even Bill Gates lau...

Today I left for my Saturday morning tennis league looking like an athlete long past his prime-- I was wearing two knee braces: a neoprene s...

I remembered a couple more chores that generally fall in my purview and aren't particularly lauded  . . . I tend to fill the gas tanks o...

I eat a bowl of Greek yogurt, peanut butter, and granola every morning-- and it's delicious-- but the down side is that it's very di...

  I've taught my older son Alex many valuable things: 1) how to juggle a soccer ball; 2) how to serve a tennis ball; 3) how to throw a ...

The weather just jumped the shark here in New Jersey-- the lovely blustery snowflakes transformed into large pellets of 33-degree rain-- so ...