Sentence of Dave

The car shopping continues (RIP Toyota minivan) and the engine light has reared its ugly head on the Mazda dashboard, our dog probably needs...

When I go to the gym, I normally lift some weights or shoot a few baskets, and then jump into the pool and swim a few laps-- I wear Spandex ...

Right now my life feels like a bad country song-- a bad but slightly liberal country song-- my Toyota minivan is dead and gone and my dog...

This morning at pickleball, I hit my first clean and intentional backhand ATP . . . it was a thing of beauty, I waited until the last moment...

  Another action-packed family vacation in Sea Isle-- Alex and Matt defended last year's random draw cornhole title (and so only Greg an...

Beach rentals need less decorative gew gaws and more hooks for hanging damp beach apparel.

Rainy day here at the beach, so in between naps I played some gin rummy with Ian and my dad and finished the third Jackson Brody mystery by ...

Too many trivial vacation moments and so little time— I’ve got to prep the salad for meatball night— but last night was Jack’s college gradu...

My extended family have once again invaded a stretch of coastline at the Jersey Shore and some good stuff  has ensued: drinking, pickleball,...

My friend Whitney was in town last night-- because what's halfway between Norfolk and Cooperstown? Central  Jersey!-- so we went out and...

The super-classy/super-distorted-$9.99 eBay-stick-on-funhouse-replacement-side-view mirror is no more . . . our mechanic replaced it with a ...

Despite the heat and my resulting insipid laziness, there's been plenty going on around here: 1) I went to the gym with my wife last ni...

Adrian McKinty's newest Sean Duffy novel-- number seven-- is just as good, if not a wee bit better, than all the rest; The Detective Up ...

Successful 80th Birthday party for my dad yesterday at Mercer Oaks Golf Course-- no pics of the party yet, they are stored on my wife's ...

I woke up this morning at 5:15 AM-- but not on my own accord, as is usual-- instead, I was roused from a deep sleep by my wife, who was whac...

  Yacht Rock night at Mr. Pi's-- which made me nostalgically remember the classic YouTube series "Yacht Rock" with Hollywood ...

I'm reading Fareed Zakaria's book Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present  and I definitely think I fell ...

My jury duty is over-- I sat on a two-day personal injury civil case that concluded today-- we found a landlord negligent for the behavior o...

Despite my usual techniques , I am seated on a jury for a civil case-- and while I can't reveal any details (other than the judge promis...

Tana French's mystery novel Faithful Place  is an evocative tale set in the land of James Joyce and The Commitments  but co-directed by ...