Sentence of Dave

Due to warmer winters and global trade, Africanized "killer bees" and armadillos and fire ants and cane toads have all made inroad...

This is the second time in the last year that my family has been betrayed by the combination of predatory insurance companies and autopay—fi...

Apparently, one way to deal with bald-faced hornets is to spray them with soapy water-- and I also read that bald-faced hornets are less act...

One of my students-- who is an accomplished artist and an aspiring tattoo artist -- asked if he could draw my portrait for an art project, a...

I got a lot done today: went to the gym, gave the dog a bath, moved two heavy air-conditioners-- one to a dumpster, the other to a storage s...

My wife isn't very keen on my two new foot accoutrements: I got some knock-off Birkenstock sandals (called Cushionaire . . . classy) whi...

When I went for my early morning swim in the ocean today, I certainly thought about the tragic demise of Malcolm-Jamal Warner—  he was one o...

The whole crew went out last night to Shenanigans— a cash only Sea Isle dive club with very sticky floors— and we saw the venerable, inimita...

My family is at the beach— and while it’s not quite the same without my dad— still, the weather is nice, the water is warm, I’ve already pla...

The irrationality of Trump's tariff policies cannot be overstated-- the fact that he slapped a 50% tariff on the tiny African nation of ...

Earlier this afternoon-- despite the heat-- I geared up-- sweatpants, work boots, sweatshirt, glasses, gloves, and I sprayed this bald-faced...

Last night, my wife and I scored some free tickets to the Red Bulls game--our friend runs the Rutgers Mandela Washington Fellowship, which b...

As an English teacher, I'm always looking for examples of irony—and not "Alanis Morissette irony," such as "rain on your ...

So we found out some bad news and some good news today . . . bad news first, of course: the bad news is that when my son Ian hydroplaned the...

My body is sore from the long car ride home from teh Outer Banks; my brain is sore from the partying on the trip; and New Jersey is a humid ...

I just completed the long drive home from the Outer Banks, and I can attest that OBFT XXXII did indeed occur in a newly renovated Martha Woo...

I am at the beach and my brain is currently generating zero thoughts, other than: those waves sound nice.

First, people said that art imitates life, then Oscar Wilde flipped this idea around and said that more often, life imitates art-- very clev...

If you're in the mood for something meta, you could certainly read  Moonflower Murders  by meta-mystery master Anthony Horowitz . . . or...

I am not as big on manners, etiquette, and calling out rudeness as my wife-- most of the time, breaches of decorum fascinate me more than an...