My Stuff
Marina, my wife, and I
My Heroes
Cesar
Chavez - labor leader whom I met and worked for
Find
out about my appearance on ABC's 20/20. Hobbies
chess
(a 1443 USCF rating which "should" be going up)
Favorite Musical
Quotes
"Everyday the bucket
goes to the well. I say one day the bottom gonna drop out."
Bob Marley (I Shot the Sheriff)
"There are few of
those among us who know that life is just a joke." Bob Dylan (All Along the Watchtower)
"We had better not speak falsely now, as the hour is getting late." Bob Dylan (All Along the Watchtower)
"I guess that love is like a Christmas Card.
You decorate a tree - you throw it in the yard." John Prine (All the Best)
"Man what are you
doing here?" Billy Joel (Piano Man)
"Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye." John Lennon (I Am the Walrus)
"I need some distraction, oh beautiful release, memory seeps from my veins, let me be empty,and weightless and maybe I'll find some peace tonight." Sarah McLaughlin (Angel)
"Half of what I say is meaningless." John Lennon (Julia)
"You'd better get yourself together; pretty soon you gonna be dead." John Lennon (Instant Karma!)
"To justify our bloody deeds to satisfy our endless needs in the name of destiny,in the name of God." Eagles (The Last Resort)
"Don't criticize what you don't understand." Bob Dylan (The Times They Are a Changing) "The more I know, the less I understand. All the things I thought I knew I'm learning again." Don Henley (Heart of the Matter)
My Pathetic Attempts at Humor
My Three Children, David, Deirdre, and Katherine
My Granddaugher Nyra (Deirdre and Hommy's Daughter) in July 2011
My Granddaugher Harper (Patti and David's Daughter) in December 2011 (less than a week old)
One of Our Pets
-- see them both in two YouTube videos #1 and
#2
Miss Ruby, Marina's Tennessee Walking Horse
My
Father and Grandmother
Himself
yo
solo
my
Uconn photo [Go Huskies!]
My Brothers and I, taken in July 2002 (Chris, Tim, Dave, Paul, Matt, and Tom)
My Mom,
my brother Tom, & I, taken in about 1948
my advisor, Don Campbell, and I, taken about 1993
Where Is Dave?
At a pousada in Obidos, Portugal, taken about 2005
Narrows in Zion National Park, Marina and I taken in 2009
Santorini, taken in 2006
Moraine Lake, Canada, taken in 2004
Rome Italy, taken in 2003
Zabrinski Point, Death Valley California, taken in 2009
Sommers Connecticut after a round of golf, taken around 2008
the
official beer of the homepage [not available in Storrs]
Donald T. Campbell - social scientist
R.
D. Laing - psychiatrist
Nellie
Fox - baseball player
John
Lennon - musician
Ludwig van Beethoven - composer
Murdered Maryknoll Nuns in El Salvador - martyrs
golf
(17 USGA handicap)
bowling
(152 ABC average -- I need new shoes!)
blackjack
(overall a big loser but do not tell me that)