Sentence of Dave

Two big laughs in the English office this week, but you probably had to be there: someone put a quotation on the public whiteboard in refere...

Nothing is cuter than a toddler's malapropism (Daddy look, I scissored the paper!) but what about when your wife, after a drawn-out nego...

I had to read every paragraph twice, but I finished David Smick's The World is Curved: Hidden dangers to the Global Economy (The Mortga...

If you read yesterday's post , then you'll be happy to know that when I ordered two eggs and cheese on a roll (salt pepper ketchup...

It's always disturbing to see someone who was once in shape and now has grown obese; for example, I saw the full-lipped red haired aerob...

I've been busy writing songs-- in anticipation of getting a new computer so I can get back into home-recording, but when I slotted this ...

My four year-old son Alex experienced the joy of getting his first allusion-- he knew that the music playing during the start of Chicken Lit...

This is what I have learned from our kitchen addition/dining room/bathroom/playroom renovation project: when your house is really really c...

If the women in my wife's book group are truly serious about this whole organic thing, then they need to do some cowpooling ( which is l...

My wife crossed the line last night, that invisible line between civility and despotism . . . the invisible line that runs down the middle o...

Thus endeth the streak: after coaching thirty-plus eighth grade soccer games without a loss, we suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hands of our a...

I never remember my dreams, but last night I had a vivid one wherein I hooked a giant marlin and . . . sorry, I almost broke my own rule-- e...

This will be my last post on this blog (and in fact, my last interaction with the Internet) because I have been reading Little Heathens: Ha...

I probably didn't look like the most compassionate coach in youth athletics when I strode over to my player (who was lying fon the sidew...

This is the kind of joke that only gets a laugh in a room full of Shakespeare geeks-- some student left a CAPITALISM SUCKS pin on a desk...

My friend from Ohio promised me that the Giants would destroy the Browns, so I didn't even attempt to stay up and watch the game . . . a...

Sometimes, in the early morning, I hear the sound of a stream of liquid cascading into a pool of water . . . punctuated by several ominous s...

I don't mean to get all Brigitte Jones on you, but between playing lots of soccer, running around with my kids, coaching and having no k...

We didn't get the message, and so Alex wore his Darth Vader shirt on school picture day-- and if he becomes infamous or famous in some w...

Those of you who don't think soccer is high scoring enough would have enjoyed my team's eight to five victory over Old Bridge-- and ...