Sentence of Dave

Alex and Ian found a lady-bug in the kitchen (possibly the same one that crawled on my wife's face in the night?) and Ian convinced Alex...

I love paradoxes and here is a great one from The Strong Horse, Lee Smith's new book on Middle East politics: "after 9/11, the schi...

WARNING: we watched Gremlins the other night with the kids, and though it's a little violent, they loved it . . . in this age of digit...

I just started Lee Smith's new book on Middle East politics called The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizatio...

Alex coined a word the other night; he said I should "buffle" someone with my newly shaven head, because it was "spiky and d...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a bit long for a thriller, but every time it slowed down, it was for a good reason-- and it's moody ...

I'm proud of the fact that I've been driving the same car since 1994 (a Jeep Cherokee Sport-- solid V6 engine and no power windows ...

Our Hamilton Beach food processor has these settings: Pulse, Grate, Quick Clean, Grind, Stir, Beat, Aerate, Shred, Puree, Blend, Crumb, Liq...

If you don't check the text messages on your cell phone for a long time, then when you finally do-- they tell a little story, and you ar...

Note to self: penicillin gives me a rash.

I loved the new Coen brothers movie, A Serious Man , for the first half hour, but then, once the theme dawned on me, it became harder to enj...

Ian groggily greeted me 6:24 Monday morning with this declaration, "Pirates play chess."

If there were any kind of cosmic justice, I wouldn't have had to endure A Gazillion Bubbles this weekend, since I took Alex to see One ...

Sea Isle City Polar Plunge Recap: a good turn-out, and everyone who was on time plunged, except our photographer Celine; the plungers wer...

Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger are with us no longer, but their legacy is: like Beck, they both championed the loser-- Salinger gave a voice ...

This very well could be the best moment of the rest of your life-- the moment that your thoughts are most lucid and your body is most respon...

After a fantastic day of snowboarding yesterday, Terry, Kim, Stacy and I hopped in my Subaru to head home, but on the way out of town I spo...

On the same day that my six year old son Alex wrote and illustrated a book called My Family (which had a page for every person in the famil...

Some people say everything happens for a reason, and though I don't believe them, it is fun to pretend that this might be true; so the...

Together is a Swedish film about a commune in the mid-seventies, and the moral is that you can't fight human nature: no matter how muc...