Sentence of Dave

The final Thursday pub night of 2021 was oddly reminiscent of a pub night a year ago-- but there were some notable changes; we started at As...

Yesterday my wife and I walked to the train station to catch an 8 AM train to Newark-- so we crossed the bridge over the Raritan to the trai...

My wife wouldn't let me have any of the salad dressing in her Trader Joe's salad dressing packet because she wanted the rest for whe...

I just finished Neal Stephenson's newish novel Fall, or Dodge in Hell  and I read a good 750 pages and then I finally had to do some ski...

After some mild trepidation and complaint, the boys and I agreed to my wife's project: we poured out all three sock drawers onto the flo...

Some people love the holidays and some people love the day after the holidays-- and I fall into the latter category; I went to the dog park ...

Although we consumed some wrapping paper and exchanged a few materialistic gifts this morning, my wife pointed out that one of our Xmas pres...

An oddly festive school day considering New Jersey clocked over 15,000 positive COVID tests (including my brother, second time) as there was...

School is pretty weird right now: I'm getting paid to cover classes almost every day because there's a staffing shortage due to covi...

I was all for Pfizer when I got my first two shots, but yesterday I got a Moderna booster and I'm not suffering any side effects (beside...

Aside from my usual New Year's Resolution: doing more of the same, I'm going to add a bonus resolution-- I'm going to try to tex...

Michael Lewis's new book  The Premonition: A Pandemic Story  is not satisfying reading but it's sure as hell informative and interes...

600 kids were out at my school today (and it was the same percentage of kids out in Highland Park, my own children reported) due to some Tik...

A Chinese algorithm is proving to be excellent at school shooter terrorism . . . and many of us have let it happen, we opened the door with ...

I was really tired two days ago and went to bed at 7 PM and then I felt lousy yesterday and it turned out I had a 101.5 fever-- so I slept i...

I was driving up South Adelaide Avenue early this morning-- it's a narrow street and it was still very dark-- and a deer darted from the...

Some people know how to wear a suit and a tie, but I am not one of those people (I have a thick neck or something).

Today was my first match of the winter tennis league at the racquet club-- I'm playing in the A division, and most of those matches begi...

I forgot my loose, breathable fabric mask at home today (it's drying on the handle of our exercise bike) so I had to grab a leaf-covered...

The Silent Patient , by Alex Michaelides, is one of those smoothly written thrillers that hypnotizes you with the easy reading so that you d...