Sentence of Dave

Despite Tom Hanks (who is a tool, and always plays himself) and Julia Roberts (who is weird looking and affected and always plays herself), ...

Yesterday, on the drive home from the beach, Catherine and I saw something neither of us had ever seen before: a fat groundhog perched atop ...

I'm reading Willa Cather's One of Ours -- which was published in 1922-- and without any fanfare, in a line of description about the...

I want to assure everyone (especially super-fans Squirrel and Whitney) that these sentences are as fresh as if they were just plucked from t...

Yesterday, there was a giant spread of junk food in the English office, and as usual, I was drawn to the worst thing on the table-- a box of...

Someone drew the notable events of the year on the message board in the English office, and the parody of my blog went like this: "So I...

Time to get all sniglety:  some people possess a special ability to precisely gauge which plastic container is the right size to store the l...

Thirty eight years living on this planet, and still so much to learn-- in the last two weeks I learned three things: 1) there are flying squ...

A proud moment: we received a post-card from BB&T Banking saying that we have only one more car payment on the Subaru . . . BUT if we a...

Summer has begun, and it makes me recall my most vivid memory of last summer: my friend Rob and I were driving back up Bolton Mountain afte...

Here's a terrible idea for a novel:  the internet becomes so large and complex that it attains consciousness and starts writing e-mails ...

Life imitates art (or what Whitney and I call art, but the rest of the world calls dreck)-- and it answers an ethical question as well: in a...

Several days ago I mentioned the fact that my son Ian shares a birthday with the Olsen twins, and I posted an alluring picture of the twin...

Although Stacey thought that Dr. Fredric J. Baur (the inventor of the Pringles can) was buried in a Pringle-can shaped sarcophagus, that was...

When I began this blog, I thought my sentences would be full of wry observations (e.g. How would the convenience store 7-11 have reacted i...

If you don't mind sacrificing your sunny disposition, read about the Stringfellow Acid Pits-- I just read the story in an anthology call...

Although I have never seen an episode of Full House, I do know that when you get to the head of the line at the pharmacy-- especially a lon...

Ian turns three today; if he were a bit older (notice my use of the subjunctive tense) he would be able to rap with the Olsen twins about s...

The nice thing about sleeping with the air-conditioner on (besides the fact that it keeps you cool) is that you don't hear the birds in ...

To do my part for the planet, I've sworn off consuming large mammals for a few months, but when I unwrapped my number 29 from The Park D...