Sentence of Dave

I beat Dr. Michael Atkin today at tennis 7-5-- it was a grueling match and I rarely get the best of him (he's the quickest 40 year old t...

Holy shit . . . my wife saved us a boatload of money by switching from Liberty Mutual Insurance to Teachers Insurance through Plymouth Rock-...

This morning was going to be the official start of summer relxation for Catherine and me-- school is over, Alex's graduation party succe...

Reading Joy Williams is like scrambling up a muddy embankment . . . but there is no top of the cliff, it's all scrambling; Harrow  is se...

We had a successful graduation party for Alex yesterday-- Catherine did SO much preparation-- salsa bar, three kinds of taco meats, gorditas...

I read David McCullough's The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West  on my Kindle, in dreamish ...

  There's a big softball tournament in the park by my house and some softball parent from South Jersey passed out at the wheel of her Je...

Stacey and Cunningham put the finishing touches on the end of the year mural today . . . and if it seems kind of cryptic, it's because y...

Alex graduated yesterday-- a lovely ceremony on the front lawn of Highland Park High School-- and then he went to Project Graduation (an eve...

Saturday was the big $25 dollar a head random draw cornhole tournament at my cousin Tim's father-in-law's house in North Brunswick a...

Another fabulous EBHS end-of-the-year party: the Victory beer was free, the pool was warm, and Kristyn and I finally won the corn-hole tourn...

Here are two things I learned very recently: 1) leftover wings are delicious if you reheat them on the grill; 2) when you're in the show...

My brother, an accomplished jazz pianist, has always sung the praises of Steely Dan, but I never got it-- until today, in the car . . . I pu...

As an adult, at some point while reading a sci-fi series, you ask yourself: "Am I really the kind of person who reads an entire sci-fi ...

Today is my younger son's seventeenth birthday, and he was scheduled for his driving test at 11 AM . . . but first, he needed to attend ...

The more my kids have grown, the more they've gotten into basketball-- and while they're not very good, they have long arms and can ...

The closer we get to the end of the year, the more time becomes elastic and the longer the 84 minute block schedule classes seem . . . this ...

My buddy Jeff cajoled me into getting up early this morning to play badminton with the 6 AM badminton crew-- the last time I did this was in...

I have a dream to make the side of my backyard like the back of my backyard . . . to make a similar leafy green wall of fargesia clumping ...

In class today, Hamlet-- who recently returned to Denmark from a near-death adventure with pirates-- confronted Yorick's skull today and...