Sentence of Dave

  My wife turned fifty today and she received a pair of lovely diamond earrings . . . and this bowerbird mating video explains why this happ...

My wife is turning fifty tomorrow-- quite a milestone-- but more significantly, I just finished my fiftieth book of the year  The Anthropoc...

I am the worst at being sick-- but now that I'm feeling better it all seems kind of silly; the Thanksgiving break started off well-- we ...

I just finished the third book in Ben H. Winters' Last Policeman Trilogy ( Word of Trouble)  and while I will offer no spoilers, I will ...

This morning during first period I got the weird silvery aura in my right eye that happens sometimes when I look at a screen too much-- and ...

It's the end of an era, a cataclysmically tragic truncation of the most royal jelly . . . Birnn Chocolate-- our delicious town chocolate...

If all the money spent on lobbying and campaign finance actually went toward infrastructure and scientific progress, we'd be living in a...

Whether or not you care for Joe Rogan-- and I love the guy, I think he's smart and curious and funny and knows how to let people talk-- ...

After I ate lunch last Saturday, while my wife was on the phone in the basement, I had a hankering for something sweet and I remembered that...

I've been grading Rutgers essays all week and procrastinating on posting my good content, but Larry David hasn't been holding back h...

It's always an exciting school day when you've got to solve a plagiarism case-- and Stacey and I did it in a period . . . she was lu...

Countdown City -- the second book in Ben Winters' Last Policeman trilogy-- is a little less of a procedural mystery novel and a little m...

Another excellent Scary Story Contest  last night, the tenth one . . . so the prompt was "Ten Years Later" . . . Stacy and I had t...

Tomorrow is the 10th Annual Scary Story Contest and Stacey and I are still way over the word limit on our story and we are giving up and goi...

My wife has banned me from ranting about Daylight Saving Time to her, so I'll do it here instead: New Jersey is experiencing the finest ...

I'm not sure if I accept the Borgesian premise of Matt Haig's novel The Midnight Library . . . but I'm also not sure if Nora the...

Soccer season is over . . . tragically . . . so Catherine and I went on an adventure today in our newly detailed (and dry) Mazda . . . lots ...

Yesterday we played Middlesex in the second round of the state tournament-- they are the two seed and possibly the best team in the section-...

This morning, my son and I absolutely annihilated a couple hundred frost-bitten lanternflies that adhered to the two small maple trees in th...

The cool weather is finally here (and wow did I eat a lot today . . . I guess my body is getting ready to hibernate).