Sentence of Dave

My wife and I are taking my mom to see Willie Nelson tonight-- yes, he is still alive! he is 92 years young-- and if you combine his age wit...

Seth Harp, in his book The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces , mentions four Army wives who were murdered...

There's nothing like the ephemeral and fleeting promise of a Malcolm Gladwell book: at the start, you truly believe when you are finishe...

Grueling day: online traffic court with my son Ian for his hydroplaning incident-- the case was adjourned because he still has a probationar...

In the Book of Acts, God instructs Ananias to meet Saul on "the street that is called Straight" in Damascus-- Mark Twain calls thi...

We are currently car shopping for a piece-of-shit-that-baresly-accelerates for my son Ian-- who recently hydroplaned and consequently totale...

My new episode of We Defy Augury , "Y'all Ready For This?" is (loosely) inspired by S.A. Cosby's Southern noir novel  The...

I made it to 6:30 AM basketball this morning, despite a hip flexor strain- and I shot fairly well from VERY deep but couldn't make space...

Today was my thirty-first "first day of school" as a teacher-- I told them the rules, summarized the course sequence, learned some...

If you love the Allman Brothers but you've worn out the grooves on their oeuvre, then you could give "Dickie Betts" by the Dea...

On the drive home from my mother's house in Monroe yesterday evening, we saw a bunch of wild turkeys crossing the road and the rest of t...

Time to reenter the working world . . . and I am also noticing that the big difference between biking here in Highland Park vs. biking at th...

So that's that . . . our beach vacation is over, and it's time to get back to the ol' routine: I'm fat from eating and drink...

My wife and I packed up our little pad in Ocean Grove this morning-- after another great beach day with friends on Friday-- and we drove bac...

We leave the beach tomorrow, and the reality of work is rearing its ugly head- but Catherine and I had a great Thursday night out: we went t...

This moment on the jetty at the dog beach in Asbury Park is probably the most epic and badass and commanding our pooch Lola has ever been de...

I thought I was going to return home today for the first time in over three weeks, to pick up Ian and bring him to the beach-- but he's ...

Next Tuesday is looming in the minds of teachers everywhere . . . first comes Labor Day Weekend, then comes labor-- but there's still so...

I am sure many of you-- as I do-- start your day by playing "Wordle," but "Wordle" needs a sister game, a game that come...

I am currently reading Tana French's murder mystery The Likeness -- which begins with Detective Cassie Maddox encountering a murder vict...