Sentence of Dave

In order to generate some material for the blog, I decided to ask my children difficult questions and jot down the results, which I figured ...

Two trivia questions that have entertained people recently: 1) name the top three international best selling music albums of all time ( acc...

A great moment on  Madmen : ad-man Duck Phillips is meeting an ad-woman Peggy Olsen in a hotel for a "nooner," and Duck is watchi...

Terry and I made a pilgrimage to the new Red Bulls Arena in Harrison . . . read all about it at Gheorghe: The Blog.

Last Saturday, Terry, Stacey, Mike and I attended the educational version of Woodstock-- the NJEA rally in Trenton-- and we are assuming tha...

Once again I got mixed up in assessing people's mental age (a concept my friend Whitney invented, where you assign someone an abstract ...

You may have tried some of the awareness tests that are available on-line, and hopefully, like me, you failed them miserably-- that's w...

I'm working my way through Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties , by conservative British historian Paul Johnson (w...

So my boss asked me if I knew what "febrile" meant and I said, "feverish" and he said,"no, it means weak" and...

Alex lost his sticker again at school, and he said it was "just for giving Leukey a high-five," and I said, "Just for that?...

We took the kids to Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus last week, and here are some things to remember: 1) the music is really LOUD...

I bought a kid's electric guitar for Ian at a garage sale, and put two coated strings on it-- my theory being, when you teach kids chess...

Last Saturday after my work-out at the gym I went to pick up my kids from the Kids Klub supervised play area, and the girl-- a new girl-- s...

So at my work-place it has become something of an honor to appear in a Sentence of Dave , when someone says or does something interesting or...

If you didn't get enough World Cup analysis in my first post, then you can read Part II today over at Gheorghe: The Blog -- it's eve...

At work the other day Stacey was not looking so good and I said, "hey, you don't look so good" and she said, "yeah, I fee...

Diane Ravitch's book The Death and Life of the Great American School System asserts two ideas, and supports them with comprehensive de...

I thought I was going for a relaxing bike ride on the towpath, and in some respects it was-- I saw lots of wildlife: a muskrat, a scarlet t...

David Shenk's new book The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong gives an...

So if you're a fan of this blog, you know that I invented the word "enter taint ment" a few weeks ago, although I simply coine...