Sentence of Dave

I couldn't find my car keys this morning but we solved the mystery-- Ian left them in the car door last night . . . and the van was park...

A fun but slightly fraught family beach vacation-- Alex never made it down, he kept testing positive for COVID and he didn't want to ris...

Interesting beach week so far: Alex tested positive for COVID the night before we left-- luckily, he hasn't been around much, he's b...

Long ago, I wanted to get a tattoo on my back of the great undersea battle: sperm whale vs. giant squid, but They Might Be Giants released ...

If you're looking for a locked-room-type whodunnit set in the far future, in the vast reaches of space, on a space station, with a robot...

I played tennis this morning with my buddy Cob and-- because of the extreme heat-- we were the only people on the courts playing singles . ....

Stacey gave me a ride home in her jeep from our college writing workshop today (we got so much work done! I actually did some work in the su...

Everyone knows when you have a newborn in the house, you're going to be sleep deprived; soon enough they sleep through night and things ...

I just finished making  Episode 5 of We Defy Augury : "The Foundling by Ann Leary: Eugenics on the Beach?" and I just finished rea...

One of the recurring themes of this blog is that I think I am sore from doing some oddball exercise (this time: deadlifts) but then it turns...

Ian and I had some fun doing trap bar deadlifts yesterday at the gym-- the trap bar makes deadlifts much easier to execute . . . which might...

The day after a beach day is always a bit depressing-- it's so hot and dry in central Jersey right now- and while I did bike to the pool...

  Lovely (and fairly typical) beach day in Asbury Park with Stacey, Cunningham, Chantal and my wife-- but one odd moment when we were walkin...

The Foundling , by Ann Leary, is billed as a summer beach read and it meets those specifications: while there's no sun or sand in the no...

This morning my son Alex took the book bag with my phone in it and Ian took the car with my wallet in it so I had no phone or money so I too...

Yesterday, my wife went over our friends' house (Lynn and Connell) to help them plant some milkweed-- because apparently milkweed poiso...

Colson Whitehead's new novel Harlem Shuffle  is not as dark and profound as The Underground Railroad  but it still explores race and pla...

Relaxing summer so far: the kids take the cars to their various job so all that's left for me to do is pull my training sled up and down...

My wife and I took a road trip to the Possumtown Firehouse last night for what I thought was going to be a two hour CPR class-- I need to up...

  Youngsters ARE cute-- as evidenced by the baby raccoon that Lola and I saw cavorting in a tree at the park-- and they the future, of cours...