Sentence of Dave

I decided today, while I was trying to teach the children, that I kind of wish this whole internet thing . . . the digital revolution, AI, G...

It's probably best to listen to the Criminal  podcast "The Roofman" parts 1 and 2, which tells the story of Jeffrey Mancheste...

Yesterday, I was walking the dog in the park, along the treeline, and an old dude with a white beard approached me and said I shouldn't ...

If you're a sucker for dinosaurs and charismatic megafauna, and you are curious about the legal and political ramifications of time trav...

A couple of weather-related observations: 1) this year, many of my high school students have terrible allergies-- the worst I've seen in...

I've learned three new things recently: 1) my wife taught me about this weekly workout schedule , and I've adopted it and it seems t...

So yesterday I believed  that my crappy-Android-phone fell out of my pants pocket and was lying prone on the pavement in the high school par...

I confiscated a student's phone today, which is always an ordeal, but it's the fourth quarter, and at this point, they should know b...

Yesterday, I had to return to teaching, but my wife's school had the day off . . . although it was not much of a day off for her-- she h...

Though I once read the entire Bible-- back when my wife and I lived in Syria and were visiting many of the sites mentioned in the Good Book-...

We are back in Jersey, after a good trip to the Poconos: we watched the Scranton Penguins blank the Cleveland Monsters and everyone agreed t...

Today, we hiked the Shades Creek side of Bear Creek Preserve, which featured more waterfalls, a rickety log bridge-- which we finally coerce...

Thursday morning, Catherine, Ian, Layla, Lola, and I headed to an Airbnb cabin in the Poconos-- fairly far north near White Haven, amid the ...

This morning, I asked my Google Home speaker what the temperature was in Highland Park and it told me the temperature in Highland Park, Illi...

If you're looking for some wild, hard-boiled crime fiction, where regular old psychopaths figure out how to navigate this lonely planet ...

My cousins haven't gotten together to make pizzagaina since before COVID-- for the uninitiated, pizzagaina is a particular type of pizza...

Stacey and I drove up to Morristown today to visit our buddy Cunningham and her incredibly well-behaved two-year son Quinn-- this was nothin...

We decided just to trim the dead material off the hollowed-out disaster-of-a-tree that resides in the back corner of our (tiny) backyard ins...

My wife and I are halfway through Best Picture winner Anora,  and the vibe has shifted from pornographic- Pretty Woman to a Safdie-esque Unc...

Ahh . . . Spring Break . . . finally . . . and so I am drinking a beer, listening to Stereolab (very calming) and writing in peace-- my wife...