Sentence of Dave

We stopped buying bags of pre-grate cheese (mainly because they have weird chemical additives to prevent clumping) and this had two good out...

  Wow . . . this new Riley Sager book The House Across the Lake  is a hot mess . . . but it certainly inspired me to think about the rules...

I was quite pleased with myself (for a few minutes) at indoor soccer this morning-- the first two games were zero-zero ties (no wonder Ameri...

I'm not very good at sarcasm-- I don't have the voice for it-- so I've got to broadcast it . . . here it comes: you know what...

An EB AM record . . . nineteen people at Friday morning basketball today-- pretty wild, we had an upstairs game and a sub-gym game-- and the...

Here they are: 1. Why is it so hard for me to get a pair of socks on without ripping them? 2. Why have I gotten so into listening to The Bri...

I'm not a medical doctor (though I often play one in my home, when I'm diagnosing my children and telling them various remedies: try...

When I play pickleball, I get great joy from hitting my opponent square in the chest with the ball-- if they pop up a "dink," this...

  Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands  is heavy viscous stuff . . . I get into it in my new episode of We Def...

Another gray, kind-of-mild winter day . . . where is the snow? 

Yesterday at early morning basketball, we had sixteen players so we had to run a pair of four-on-four games across the gym-- while this was ...

I hope my son learned his lesson yesterday at night court-- my lawyer buddy Jay got his violations knocked down to two points (and a stern l...

It would be a perfect Thursday afternoon to relax, take a nap, perhaps have a beer or two and avoid the ugly weather, but instead, I'll ...

 I made a playlist on Spotify called "psychedelicious" but -- once again-- I haven't coined anything new . . . dammit.

  Jennifer Egan's new novel The Candy House , ostensibly a "sequel" to her tour-de-force A Visit From the Goon Squad , reminds...

The Sporting Gods did shine their benevolent (and sweaty) light on New Jersey yesterday-- for five glorious hours, as Rutgers defeated Ohio ...

This could be-- if the sporting gods will it-- a great sporting day for New Jersey-- Rutgers vs. Ohio State basketball game is about to star...

Kate Beaton's autobiographical graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands  is heavy, viscous stuff; Beaton heads from Nova Scotia t...

This is the week COVID finally caught Catherine and Ian-- but not me! . . . or not yet-- and earlier in the week the principal caught Ian go...

Catherine and I couldn't agree on the difference in meaning between "pocket change" and "pocket money"-- the argumen...