Sentence of Dave

I was explaining this pathetic tale to my senior English class -- and I was taking the perspective that I had "accomplished the task g...

Apparently, my wife has NOT been reading my blog, or she would have remembered this rule to live by  . . . but instead of obeying my wisdom,...

Last Monday, while eating a delicious slice of porcetta (a meal that a friend of ours only prepares on Martin Luther King Day, because she h...

I was enjoying Dorothy Sayers' classic mystery The Nine Tailors . . .  but eventually all the campanology got to be too much for me and ...

If you stick smelly, damp, and dirty soccer pinnies in the dryer for a bit, then they seem clean (or they seem clean to seven year old ...

I saw someone on Route 1 start to do the infamous "drive in reverse on the shoulder of a busy highway because I missed my exit and I am...

Usually, my wife folds my laundry -- though I tell her this is unnecessary -- so this time, when she finished the load, I took the basket an...

So Tuesday night at dinner, my eight year old son Alex posed this question to my wife: "Would you rather be bigger or smaller?" an...

Everyone and their brother has taken note of the fact that the upcoming Super Bowl is the first time siblings have met each other as oppo...

Instead of watching the Baltimore/New England NFL championship game on Sunday, my wife and I engaged in a marathon of the HBO comedy  Gir...

I hate the park by my house right now -- it's muddy and full of goose-shit -- and the only way to solve the problem (without resorting t...

It's often surprising what can generate a good discussion in English class: last week I had the kids read a short passage from War and P...

My dog likes to eat shin-guards.

The other day my son Alex informed me that "if you say tuba backwards, it's 'a butt'"

So my older son -- who is eight -- got a Ripstik caster board for Christmas; if you haven't seen one of these things, they look like ...

Not much to complain about with Rian Johnson's new time travel movie Looper -- the visual effects are gritty and realistic, Bruce Wi...

Katherine Boo's new book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is astounding on three levels: 1) ...

The other night, I was reading my kids Daniel Pinkwater's awesomely bizarre children's book Lizard Music, and we came to the part w...

I try to appreciate all that I have -- which I know is a lot . . . especially because I'm reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Lif...

Even if you are going somewhere by car, you should still dress for the weather outside.