Sentence of Dave

We drove home from the beach today-- and on the way back we picked up Lola from the Barker Lounge-- and everyone was so tired from all the s...

Our favorite dive bar in Sea Isle, the Springfield, is no longer-- it's now an outdoor tiki bar-- and so our favorite cover band-- LeCom...

CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is Tom O'Neill's twenty year investigation of the Manson murde...

 It looks like my last post worked-- my blog can cancel weather!

I am canceling the weather here in New Jersey. 

When Darkness Loves Us  by Elizabeth Engstrom contains two weird novellas; in both stories, small-town life becomes even smaller-- the stori...

The 28th annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip was yet again a great success, here are some things I remember: 1) Gormley and I crushed everyone a...

I went to the knee doctor (Dr. Kinshasas Morton . . . who I also visited ten years ago!) but this time it was for my right knee and it seems...

I wish I was holed up in a taverna in Italy today-- how often does a nation have finalists in Wimbledon and the Euro Cup . . . on the same d...

Though it's weird, trippy, and evocative-- with Vietnam flashbacks and spooky black magic in equal measure-- Herman Raucher's novel ...

My son Alex and I both read Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff--  and it inspired us to play some poker-- her story is compelling and i...

It rained some on Sunday, but we were able to take a nice hike with the dog along the old narrow-gauge railroad tracks in  Sullivan  . . . a...

The Auctioneer  was a brief bestseller in1975  and then promptly forgotten-- perhaps because the youngish author, Joan Samson, soon after di...

We got up early this morning-- and it was COLD-- and we headed a few minutes up the road to Hancock Point Kayak Tours, which is an old coot ...

The Schoodic Peninsula side of Acadia National Park reminds me of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon: equally scenic but more desolate and ex...

Another hot day in Maine, so we didn't do any epic hikes-- instead, we explored the peninsulas and beaches in Hancock and Sorrento-- and...

  Twenty-one years ago, my wife and I honeymooned in Bar Harbor-- and we stayed in a cottage, which was a step-up from our usual peanut-butt...

We made it up to Hancock, Maine without mishap-- stopping for Bissell Brothers beer and Salvage BBQ in Portland-- and while our rental is a ...

I can't even begin to describe this, other than to say that we're extremely lucky and everyone is doing fine; but we are having some...

 Nothing much to report here, just a bunch of tennis (even my wife got out and hit!)