After a long battle with an undiagnosed illness that he still battles daily, Dave set out on a new adventure: writing and teaching. His short story collection, “How to Be Lonely,” was published in 2021 by WSC Press to critical acclaim in his mother’s house. She gave it 5 stars on Amazon (this is true), with her saying, “What? I thought it was excellent.” No word yet on whether she has rescinded her 5-star rating of his 4th-grade picture of Martin Luther King Jr., but fingers crossed she will stick with it.