Sentence of Dave

I would prefer not to die of the "swine flu," as there is nothing more embarrassing than people repeating "swine flu" ov...

I guess it is unusual for a dude to buy fabric by the yard at Wal-Mart, but I needed some thick material to staple to the plywood walls in m...

I see the appeal of Dancing with the Stars : the girls are really hot and scantily clad, so you can't stop watching because you want to...

So my students are presenting various ethical dilemmas and how to resolve them, and a group of boys is presenting a case about plagiarism an...

Enough of this hot weather, I'm ready for winter again.

I like to think that I'm a pretty calm driver, but this must not be genetic (or else my kids inherited some bad driving genes from my w...

Our neighbors (who were in their kitchen eating lunch) got a treat this weekend when they saw me trick Catherine into cutting my hair-- she ...

The Group  (by Mary McCarthy) is a frank book about eight Vassar girls in the 1930's who speak candidly about men, sex, contraception,...

Let it be known that my bookshelves are done and painted-- but that means I have to remove the boxes and boxes of books that I stashed under...

I am very pleased with what maintenance did to the thermostat in my classroom during Spring Break; when I came back there was a note on th...

So it turns out yesterday was Earth Day, Pot Day (I looked up why, the legend is that a crew of California high school kids in the 70's ...

The other night we watched Vicky Christina Barcelona, which was quite good-- the studly Spanish painter teaches you how to pick up two beaut...

While I was peeling a large ripe mango, my son Alex asked me: "What rhymes with mango?" and I impressed myself with the quantity a...

High marks for David Graham's new book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Forest (I give it eleven poisone...

Radio newscasters need transitions: "Beautiful day today, Going up to 62 with plenty of sunshine, unemployment is still on the rise in...

Yesterday, I was behind a green box truck with an official black and white sign on the back that read: INEDIBLE BAKED GOODS . . . this rem...

Steven Johnson's excellent new book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America is mainly th...

The first morning of our vacation I got up early to read, and Alex woke up soon after and he told me his favorite part of the day was sunri...

Something NOT to do on vacation: go out for many beers with your old college buddies, wake up the next morning and eat two extremely dense ...

When an attractive pregnant woman on the phone in the office politely asks "Do you have Momma Spanks ? The full length version?"...