Sentence of Dave

I would like to give Consumer Reports a five stars out of five product rating; not only was the site extremely useful for buying a used car,...

Andrew Solomon's book Far From the Tree explores astonishingly difficult ethical dilemmas, such as: 1) should parents have the rights...

According to The Week magazine, on average, an asteroid larger than 250 feet in diameter penetrates our atmosphere once a millenium -- and ...

I was walking my dog in the rain, and as I passed the Stop and Shop parking lot my son's soccer coach stopped his minvan to talk to me a...

Overheard from my son Alex in the shower: "Mommy, that zit hurts . . . oh, here's another zit . . . squeeze . . . oh no, that's...

Through a discussion in the English office, I learned that all of these things are quite costly: replacing your old windows, redoing your al...

I am a hypocrite, because I hate when my kids bring home a lot of homework, yet, as a teacher, I am a contributor to this problem . . . luck...

The other night my son Alex, as he was stepping into the shower, asked me "What controls our brain?" and I normally wouldn't b...

For the first time in several years, we did not attend the Sea Isle City Polar Plunge -- the house we normally rent for the weekend was flo...

Looking back, I have decided that I phrased yesterday's too moralistically . . . too much in the manner of Immanuel Kant's "oug...

My wife would like me to crowdsource this question, as we have an ever-so-slight difference in opinion: how much help should parents give th...

So this is the scene: Ian is putting something in the kitchen garbage, I am getting coffee out of the microwave, and Catherine is fiddling w...

Due to unappreciative children and an empathetic spouse, my wife went on a two week "cooking strike" -- and the first night was a ...

It's that time of year again -- the time of year when, because of Hamlet , I entertain all topics supernatural, and challenge spirit...

If you don't feel like driving all the way to Camden, and then shelling out nearly twenty-five clams for admission to The Adventure A...

The long vacant building in Highland Park that once housed Charlie Brown's is finally reopening, as a Korean BBQ Chicken place, but a...

My son Alex -- who does not really look like my son, as he has a beautiful head of blonde hair -- noticed that all the protagonists of his f...

My eight year old son Alex, who believed he was being unfairly forced to clean up a mess that his brother Ian created, when asked by my wife...

So I'm reading Andrew Solomon's tome Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity,  and I'm plugging my ...

I told my son Alex that he needed to eat some more of his mother's delicious home-made chicken soup (which he ate without complaint two ...