Sentence of Dave

I went snowshoeing for the first time in my life last week, while we were on vacation in Vermont, and I must say that the experience of snow...

The Vermont Country Store in Weston is over-priced and full of kitsch, but these minor faults are overshadowed by the vast array of free ...

I am about to pour a triumphant local Vermont beer: we survived four days of family snowboarding without mishap (though my children nearly d...

While I recognize the irony of someone like myself judging lunatics who write lots of words on the internet, I still can't help offering...

I highly recommend Tyler Cowen's e-pamphlet The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick,...

Last week, my wife texted me the following message "U need to pick up the boys from your parents' house on the way home; I took out...

Just before I go to sleep on a cold, dry winter night, I strip off my black fleece sweatshirt so I won't get hot once I am under the cov...

This smart and spot-on post about amateur art by my friend Rob made me realize that the reason I have never actually tried to paint a pictu...

Though I most definitely saw the film, if you were to ask me "Do you remember Remember the Titans ?" I would have to say no . . . ...

My friend Stacy and I each both teach Philosophy this year, and we were talking about Aristotle's Golden Mean . . . Aristotle says for e...

In his new book, Jared Diamond explains that the human subjects studied in the vast majority of psychology experiments are WEIRD, and that m...

Every year, it seems that I have one annoying class . . . it's usually a large class in the middle of the day, just before lunch, when t...

I am not a big fan of live events -- a shortcoming of mine -- and this is because I'm not a terribly flexible person and I don't lik...

You may have completed a triathlon or done a "tough mudder," or perhaps you've scored a hole-in-one or climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro...

An easy way to hear my wife use profanity is to spill some granola on the counter, and then instead of cleaning it up, simply sweep it off t...

Americans can't sleep as it is, yet we spring the clocks ahead so we stay up later, consuming more fuel and stuff, and get alarmed even ...

Due to a serendipitous confluence of influences -- including the annual "spring ahead" of Daylight Saving Time, the fact that I...

Jared Diamond, in his new book  The World Until Yesterday,  claims that among New Guinean hunter gatherers, the Andaman Islanders, and the P...

When carpooling children to a birthday party, always offer to do the drop-off -- it's much smoother than pick-up, when things can run la...

Monday morning, I had to use the light from my cell phone -- which prominently displays the time -- to locate my dog's poop so that I co...