Sentence of Dave

If hardcore pro-life folks seriously believe that life begins at conception-- the moment when that one special sperm plunges into an enormou...

Robert B. Parker's fourth Spenser novel, Promised Land , is more about relationships than crime, and I should warn you: there's quit...

Governor Phil Murphy recently signed  Bill S3206 , which requires the New Jersey "Division of Travel and Tourism to re-draw the tourism...

On our third day in Saugerties we walked too much: I got up early and biked over to the Esopus Bend Nature Preserve and wandered through the...

On day two of our Saugerties vacation, we all got up early and headed to the Overlook Mountain Trailhead-- the trail is an out-and-back grav...

Yesterday, Catherine and I drove up to Saugerties, NY to meet our friends Dom and Michelle for our first "empty nest" getaway . . ...

  Another episode of We Defy Augury  is up and streaming-- Miss Education and I discuss the literary tornado known as Colleen Hoover (or ...

Ian's graduation party was a great success: the food was fantastic and it ALL went . . . the brisket, the special kielbasa, the pulled p...

Mortal Stakes -- the third book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series-- is about things I love: athletics, the ethics of sports, a confli...

I'm very proud that the new episode of my podcast is up and streaming:  "Slouching Towards Something:Karl Polyani vs. Friedrich Ha...

Shark attacks have increased on the East Coast, for a number of reasons: an increase in gray seals and menhaden-- both food for sharks; fede...

I was walking the dog in the park this morning, slightly dazed from Ian's graduation party, when the mirror-shade-wearing, long-haired p...

After a LOT of prep (including painting the deck) we are ready to roll for Ian's graduation party-- Catherine just told me that my list ...

 Yesterday, I napped so hard that when I woke up, I thought it was tomorrow (which would be today).

I shouldn't reveal this, in case a malevolent demon reads my blog, but if someone wanted to punish me for eternity-- mercilessly-- they ...

There's nothing worse than pulling up to your house at 1 PM after a long day of work-- four hours!-- and you're very hungry and you ...

After a long day of grueling "work" (four hours of cutting and pasting curriculum bullshit into pacing guides and syllabi-- so dum...

Things pretty normal around here . . . or what passes for normal these days: 1) my older son Alex made my wife and I see the movie Barbie  ....

  If you lived through the 1970s, but were too young to remember much of it-- aside from the absurd commercials and network TV-- then this e...

Robert B. Parker's first two Spenser mysteries-- The Godwulf Manuscript  and God Save the Child -- will give you a perspective on crime ...