Sentence of Dave

In preparation for summer, Catherine depilated my back and shoulder hair with Veet hair removal cream and then I used my beard trimmer to ta...

 The music in the Canadian documentary series How It's Made is decidedly pornographic sounding, and-- oddly-- this fits the content ...

The final lesson in Michael J. Sandel's book What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets is that although a "fire hydran...

If you were wondering if it's okay to allow your children to play with spearguns, the answer is: go for it! . . . because even if you...

In contrast to the all-encompassing logic of yesterday's post, today I will give some exceedingly specific and local advice: if you live...

Some people believe Everything Happens For A Reason , but other people are annoyed by this philosophy--  so if you'd like, you can buy a...

Cheryl Strayed's new memoir Wild: From Lost To Found On the Pacific Coast Trail is the female version of Into the Wild ,  John Kraka...

Michael Sandel examines the inevitable corruption of ethics in a society where market mentality is pervasive in his new book What Money C...

The high school where I teach holds their graduation ceremony down in Trenton, at the Sun National Bank Center, and every year I forget how ...

I ate three chocolate croissants for dessert on Father's Day.

So for those of you anxiously awaiting my decision regarding the Trilemma of Dave , I actually rested my injured knee, and I have been wea...

My wife had the audacity to suggest that I ought to have gone grocery shopping yesterday afternoon, instead of taking my paddleboard out...

I took my stand-up paddleboard out on the Raritan this afternoon-- it's a dirty river, but the boat launch is only a couple hundred y...

A few days ago the Final Jeopardy! answer was "THE BESTSELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME BY A FEMALE IS A 20 MILLION SELLER BY THIS WOMAN WHO S...

Running before work is risky, because if you get tired or injured miles from home, you've still got to get back in time to teach first p...

Blowing up a balloon is kind of scary . . . there's no pressure meter to tell you when to stop.

I carry cash, and associate this with being a man-- a man should have some green in his wallet, so he can pay quickly and fluidly, without a...

My dog bolted one time  and learned his lesson . . . so last weekend when he popped loose from his collar, next to a busy road, and I told h...

While the "super" setting on my window fan is hardly that , the "medium spicy" setting at our local Thai restaurant is a...

They have a new self-checkout kiosk at the library, so you can borrow a book without having to undergo the scrutiny of the librarian . . . n...