Sentence of Dave

The Surgeon General needs to institute a food rating system; macaroni and cheese would be rated G, as not only is it is bland, but-- even b...

So everybody likes to say they are "hardcore," whether you claim to be a hardcore surfer, hardcore mountain climber, or hardcore s...

Here is one of my favorite stories from my time in Syria, and it sounds like America is following suit: my friend Drew-- a Canadian -- was ...

Facebook has advanced one step closer to the idea I pitched to them in 2009 (and by "pitched" I mean wrote it on this blog and ...

On Saturday mornings at the park by my house, a bunch of older Asian guys play something that vaguely resembles basketball -- they position ...

Unlike Blanche DuBois, it's not often that I've depended upon the kindness of strangers-- and we all know, from the murder of Kitty...

Patience is certainly a virtue-- but it is a virtue that can be expended-- and once your tank is empty, you don't sputter and roll to a ...

So here is a question for married folks: if you and your spouse combined are equivalent to one brain, then do you play the role of the long-...

Like the pope , my dog prefers to shit in the woods (except when he has the runs . . . then he shits in the playroom . . . my dog, I mean . ...

I read George R.R. Martin's fantasy masterpiece Game of Thrones   last year, and I was nervous about how it would translate to the smal...

Last week, when I began my usual rant about Daylight Savings Time , my wife said, "It's like clockwork," and I said, "It...

Though my loyal readers expressed their disgust with some of the recent content on Sentence of Dave, I think the root cause of this story a...

Lately, Dave has been blessed, as he has borne witness to myriad miracles, behold: I was teaching the start of Act IV of Hamlet , the secti...

Woody Allen's movie Midnight in Paris did the impossible-- it actually made me want to visit Paris-- he films the old architecture ...

I'm seriously thinking about thinking seriously about purchasing a mini-van . . . no that's not true: I am thinking seriously about ...

So now that all the uproar over Daylight Saving Time is over, let pitch my plan to you-- and I will admit that when I first explained this p...

My son Alex asked me if I could bring our dog Sirius when I picked him up from school on Tuesday, and of course I obliged him, as nothing is...

Note to self: coupons don't work unless you take them out of your pocket and actually hand them to the cashier (and, of course, I made ...

I know there are worthier causes to devote my time to-- people around the world are starving and oppressed; the ice caps are melting; the ra...

Friday, as I was pulling into the school parking lot, I felt my cell phone buzz and I instantly remembered what I had neglected to do . . . ...