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The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a beautiful and violent love story between a godlike-man-fish and a mute cleaning wom...

 I didn't have to wear a mask at the gym today!

I put down some grass seed in the yard in the spots that are bare from shed digging and dog pee, and grass takes a long time to germinate an...

Disaster in the state tennis tournament yesterday, my kids' team got ousted in the first round by Florence, the seven seed (Highland Par...

In the Woods , Irish mystery author Tana French's first novel is one you will never forget-- it revolves around two separate mysteries r...

My son Alex solved an easy version of this famous riddle today: Alex wanted to go to tennis practice early to practice his kick serve with ...

Getting old is knowing when to drink five beers instead of ten (and the ladies at the engagement party we saw at The Homestead in Morristown...

I finished my cinderblock planter/bar and my wife added some plants, but our yard is being overwhelmed right now by a bumper crop of those m...

My wife teaches fifth-grade math and she takes lots of outdoor mask breaks with her in-person students and one of them noticed that the purp...

Klara and the Sun , by the masterful Kazuo Ishiguro, is a profound (and profoundly melancholy) take on obsolescence and AI . . . if you want...

"Badgering" someone isn't behaving like a badger-- it's behaving like a dog during the sport of "badger-baiting,"...

Catherine and I went to the city for a couple of nights to celebrate 21 years of marriage-- we didn't do much for our 20th Anniversary b...

My boys had a tough match today-- they were playing Wardlaw Hartridge, an undefeated private school with a very good team, but it was a matc...

 I'd love to write a sentence but I can't concentrate because my dishwasher is too loud.

Patricia Lockwood's new novel No One Is Talking About This is fragmented and poetic, it's hard to describe but easy to read; I would...

Yesterday, at the pool clean-up day, there were a number of people who wore masks-- though we were outside and certainly crowded in any way-...

Five pints out of five for Tana French's new novel The Searcher  . . . it's a bit like The Searchers in that it has the vibe of a ...

No time to write sentences, as I'm working on my next project: a cinderblock bar/planter next to the newly built shed . . . I'm tryi...

When I looked in the mirror a moment ago, I saw a decent sized spider on my neck . . . and I wish I could say I reacted calmly (but no worse...

It's May, so enough of the April showers, Weather Gods . . . I want to go out and watch my kids play tennis (not inhale an entire bag of...