Sentence of Dave

Does anyone actually get Andy Capp?-- and I'm not talking about his Hot Fries, which are delicious, I'm talking about the comic stri...

While I can only commend Sean Penn for going to Haiti and lending a hand, I also think he may have lost himself in his "role" as a...

Once in a while it's fun to have a date night: an intimate dinner at a rustic spot (Sandy's diner) and then something special in the...

Alex tossed a shield bug in the toilet, but Ian (who STILL refuses to let us use live worms as fishing bait) rescued the drowning bug, not t...

We started watching the second season of Breaking Bad , and it is just as excellent and intense as the first-- if you like to sit tensely w...

Here is a great picture of last week's flood and what it did to the park a block from our house-- if the ocean levels do rise as predic...

There is nothing more serene to me than running barefoot on the beach with my iPod, or that's how it used to be, but I think I will be m...

I rarely post videos, but I'm sure that this is the most important film since Citizen Kane , and it inspired the kids and me to build a ...

On St. Patrick's Day, my son Alex had some questions about Ireland, and so I showed him a map and put on some Irish music (Horslips) and...

Because of all the flooding, I forgot to mention just how much I hate daylight savings time-- it's not just the darkness in the morning,...

If you can stomach it, you should read The Good Soldiers , David Finkel's account of his time with battalion 2-16 during "the surge...

The older you get, the longer it takes to become friends with an acquaintance: kindergarteners at the park become friends in minutes . . . ...

It's a little embarrassing, but I can't stop listening to the new Beach House album; it's called "Teen Dream" and th...

Chop Shop takes you to a fantastic world, yet it feels completely natural . . . it begins with day laborers hustling for jobs-- is it Boliv...

I grabbed Anneli Rufus's new book Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On on an impulse because it has the same title as a new ...

Everyone is grouchy at work because of contract negotiations and expected budget cuts, and we wear buttons that say "No Contract, still...

Odd combination of events: high school play, high winds, and fairly high flooding . . . and a new English office chart and "points...

Getting a massage is my favorite form of entertainment, not only because it feels good, but also because it is entertainment without negativ...

Yesterday, when the teacher I share a wall with asked me to come in and say a few words about the singularity, this made me increibly happy ...

I am beginning to think that Hamlet is a little like Neo, from the film The Matrix ; Hamlet is somehow subconsciously aware that he is in a...