Sentence of Dave

I thought reading the kids some Greek myths would be at worst innocuous (and a bit boring) and at best a nice basis in the most common allus...

Sometimes the comedy club isn't funny-- like when the table next to you can't stop chatting and you ask them repeatedly to please be...

My four year old son Alex told me that "in school you have to say everything out loud, you can't just talk in your brain, because t...

Yesterday, Catherine and I went to our first Back-to-School Night, and Alex's classroom had pictures the students drew on the walls and ...

Whenever you have a lot of chores to do, and you've been sitting on your ass all afternoon watching football because you're sore fro...

This has been bothering me: Vincent Chase is the star on "Entourage," but I don't think he's the star of "Entourag...

I was going to continue in the political vein with a sentence about the Sarah Palin/Laura Roslin  Battlestar Galactica analogy -- Palin does...

Sarah Palin's children are named Track, Willow, Bristol, Piper, and Trig; Trig is her child with Down Syndrome . . . and the condition ...

Let it be known: yesterday-- Sunday the twenty first of September . . . the first day of autumn-- I FIXED THE TOILET; I replaced the fill ...

Another bad decision in a long line of them: during our 8th grade soccer pre-game warm up (and I feel that it's crucial to have a crisp...

My ninth grade math teacher said if you drew a perfect circle free-hand, then you would immediately go completely and irrevocably insane-- ...

My wife got placed on the jury of a criminal case, and while she's not thrilled because she has to miss work (and she has to go to court...

People can be so rude . . . or so my wife tells me-- people aren't usually rude to me, but they are constantly being rude to my wife-- f...

A miraculous resurrection in our house-- and we're not even near Easter; Catherine threw away the corpse of our pet hermit crab two week...

After having a bad day Saturday (high fever, constricted throat, tonsillitis, car accident that was pretty much completely my fault) I had a...

Catherine explained to me in so many words that my household chore contributions of late have consisted of playing the guitar and reading ( ...

If you need a doctor on a Saturday, you're better off living in a third world country; I went to PromptCare on Easton Avenue, and I am ...

Wednesday, in the English office, because of a challenge, I bounced the giant-liquid and glitter-filled super-ball off the floor, off the w...

I know I shouldn't be proud of this (but of course I am); at eighth grade soccer try-outs I timed the kids in a typical dribbling and s...

On a day as tragically infamous as this one, it is important to remember things you love, but often forget about, such as:  1) Guidance day...