Sentence of Dave

Another perfect beach day . . . or near perfect: I pulled the wagon down early while Catherine was at the grocery store and got set up-- the...

Cat, Lola, and I are settling in to our beach rental in Ocean Grove . . . we had coffee this morning at Odyssey Coffee- which resides in the...

Yesterday, I finished my first (and perhaps last) P.D. James mystery novel, A Taste for Death , and while I enjoyed the central mystery and ...

  My new episode of We Defy Augury,   "From Sayreville to Sicily: The Effect of Setting on the Psyche,"  is (loosely) inspired by...

So I've listened to so much various music in the course of my lifetime--mainly jazz, indie rock, prog rock, alternative rock, punk rock,...

Although yesterday's car-buying process took nearly eight hours, it was still a walk in the park compared to last summer's fiasco --...

I would love to write a witty, profound sentence today, but this car-buying process is taking forever!

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 ...