Sentence of Dave

The key to a happy marriage is this: when you hear your wife pull into the driveway, get off the couch, race to the kitchen, and start doing...

John Franzen swings for the fences with his new novel Freedom , and in a sense his Tom Wolfe-esque survey of America-- through the eyes of a...

A Jordanian, an Indian, a Cop, a Slovakian Chemist, a Sicilian, and Red Headed White Guy walk into a bar . . . but it's not a joke; it i...

So I'm eating lunch in the English office and this kid walks in without knocking-- which is totally unacceptable-- and he picks up this...

In Imperial Grunts , a fairly positive review of American special forces around the world, Robert Kaplan does remind us that we could have ...

My wife had a long stressful day at work on Monday (she went to the wrong school for her work shop, and then when she finally found it, it t...

In the early chapters of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages , Guy Deutscher contrasts the difficul...

Last Friday was one of my strangest afternoons as a soccer coach: though the sun had been out for days, our field was still a mess-- there w...

Like all people, I am both intrigued and apprehensive about how others perceive me, and so-- during an office conversation on the interplay ...

Last week I was teaching my students the importance of beginning their college essay with an engaging opening, and I decided to illustrate t...

Ian has learned how to work a CD player and loves to listen to music, and so I gave him my CD collection (which is housed in one of those gi...

I did not go to Back to School Night for my kids (since I go to school every day, I don't have to attend) but Catherine reported that Ia...

I like it when the weather turns cold because then I feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of our house.

I am making my way through Slovenian super-brain Slavoj Zizek's new book Living in End Times , and interspersed amongst the neo-Marxist ...

The ESPN documentary The Two Escobars traces the rise and fall of the Colombian national soccer team and drug king-pin Pablo Escobar; it is...

As I was getting home from work last week, I caught the tail end of a message from the school nurse . . . something about my son Ian being b...

Stacy needed my crate of assorted balls for a philosophy class activity, and she came to my classroom to remind me (but she could not bring ...

My adult soccer team improved its record to 3-0 the other night, and once again we beat a team that was younger, more fit, and more skilled ...

Last week, a large wasp found its way into my classroom and the students had the usual reactions-- panic, terror, and the rapid fluttering o...

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw's new book Why does E=mc 2 (and why should we care?) comes close to achieving their goal . . . making you f...