Sentence of Dave

How did I survive this many years without stumbling upon the Finnish surf rock band Laika and the Cosmonauts ?

We braved the storm Wednesday afternoon and motored up Route 87 to our favorite spot in Vermont , and when I took the dog out Thursday morni...

A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder explains that a little disorder is often more beneficial than organization -- and while we k...

An excellent Radiolab podcast called "Cut and Run" explains why a small area in Kenya produces so many incredible long distance r...

I finished Nassim Nicholas Taleb's new book Antifragile , and while I can't say it was fun and delightful, like a Malcolm Gladwell,...

I'd choose to visit Philadelphia over New York City any day of the week (and weekends) and while there, I would rather eat a roast pork ...

My boss recommended this You Tube video by author John Green to inspire seniors struggling to write their college essays, and not only do...

So my students were working in groups -- connecting this podcast to this article with some help from Neil Postman -- and I was reading  na...

Last week, after a year of touting Spotify, I had a sudden resurgence of interest in Pandora -- soccer is over and I actually have some time...

When there are clouds in the sky, even if weather.com reports a zero point zero percent chance of rain, it's better to tell your wife ...

Steve and Alison Sexton, two young economists (who happen to be twins) have discovered something they call "the Prius effect," : i...

Socrates was no fan of the written word ; he did not like that writing is immutable, cannot defend itself, and does contain the give and tak...

Sometimes I teach my students how to write, sometimes I teach them how to read, and sometimes I actually teach them something important: las...

A logical guess as to who said "prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" is  Yogi Berra  . . . bu...

My family was in Chelsea Market last Saturday and it was crowded; a young couple with a cute blonde toddler were walking directly in front...

I'm trying my best not to lose my temper with my children, my students and my soccer teams (and this is a tough task, because I'm si...

I went to dinner with several couples on Saturday night and I was bombarded with TV recommendations -- because we are living in the Platin...

I have been on a podcast binge, and if you listen to enough podcasts, it's hard not to learn something  . . . and so while I was listeni...

There comes a time in every man's life when he must take all the scrap lumber from under the deck and nail it together in the form of...

My son Ian's latest work of art, made without the use of LSD or any other hallucinogenic (at least that's what he told me).