Sentence of Dave

Here are some of the things I learned while reading David K. Randall's book Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep . ...

Last Wednesday night, when I checked on my children to make sure they were tucked into bed, doing some reading before lights out, I found my...

I am sure all of you are familiar with the sensation of getting "that look" from someone who passes you by in the hallway at work ...

Read any article about how to write a successful blog and the first tip will be something like this: STAY ON TOPIC or CHOOSE A UNIQUE TOPIC...

After my son Ian surprised me with his ability to read a rather difficult book out loud, he explained, "My head is little, but my brain...

The Cabin in the Woods is the horror movie you've seen a million times before, except that it's not . . . so don't be fooled...

My wife was in a "I'm-going-to-get-a-lot-of-shit-done" mood over the four day Rosh Hashanah weekend . . . and in the midst of ...

So I am still on extended leave from the new George R.R. Martin book, A Dance With Dragons-- I am three hundred pages in but I keep picki...

I was up early reading Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, and I was reading the chapter entitled "Sleep On It,"...

I was walking my dog early in the morning-- before sunrise-- and it was foggy, moonless, and still; suddenly he lunged at a gray cat on t...

Over the four day weekend, I was laid up because of a pulled quadricep muscle, and this gave me time to reflect on my life . . . and I reali...

So after spending eighteen hours last weekend at a travel soccer tournament, and then coaching five days of eighth grade boys try-outs, two ...

Though my U-8 travel soccer team took a beating at the hands of a deeper, more experienced Bloomfield soccer squad on Saturday, there was on...

Dear Abby . . . when you reply to a party invitation on Evite, shouldn't you make a clever comment? -- for instance, if someone goes thr...

My seven year old son Ian-- who should be old enough to know better-- picked up a whistle he found on the ground at last weekend's socce...

When you're selectively remembering how excellent your musical tastes were back in high school and college-- how you listened to The Cla...

Karen Thompson Walker's new novel The Age of Miracles portrays an unusually delicate and precise apocalypse, and her narrator is eq...

I'm not bald, I am balding-- it is true that I don't have as much hair on my head as I used to have, but I still have some hair . . ...

At our first department meeting, Liz told a story about a "miracle" where she was stranded at an airport with her baby, and she wa...

My friend Rachel told me that her property was " a skosh less than half and acre" and I said, "A what?" but apparently a...