Sentence of Dave

Negligent and lazy readers, here is your chance to catch up on a year's worth of Sentences by Dave TM and while these "winners&qu...

My eight year old son Ian and I have a long term bet: he must beat me at ping-pong before he turns thirteen years of age, and the stakes are...

Yesterdays post revealed a thorny dilemma: when you are referring to a scene in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men , then do you say the final ...

I'll never understand why school so often privileges tragedies over comedies . . . kids read  Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth  ...

All you people who drive into the park (any park . . . I've seen you people in Donaldson Park, Johnson Park, Thompson Park,  Roosevelt P...

Why didn't anyone tell me you can't put non-stick pots and pans in the dishwasher?

I am a fan of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts , and in an episode about the Spanish-American War he calls Teddy Roosevelt "...

If you'd like to work in a South African gold mine, three miles beneath the earth -- then you'll have to contend with the free-fall ...

One of the great things about Mark Twain is that he achieved the job he desired as a youngster he watched the gargantuan riverboats steam pa...

If you like to read books, then head over to Gheorghe: The Blog to peruse my list of the seven best books of the year . . . and even if you ...

I lost my little black iPod months ago, but I didn't panic . . . I didn't accuse the cleaning lady of stealing it or blame my childr...

I withstood the temptation free bagels in the main office, tantalizing heaps of cookies in the English office and a prominent display of Ree...

While decorating our tree, the boys and I unanimously decided to forego the Christmas carols and instead listen to this fantastically vivid ...

After I get out of the shower, on the weekend, I'll throw on some clothes -- but not socks -- and then I'll go downstairs to do what...

Collision Low Crossers offers an alternative to the typical sport's story; there are no underdogs or last second heroics in this 460 pa...

It's hard for me to watch my boys on the sled hill -- they make one horrible decision after another (they call it "extreme sledding...

Nicholas Dawidoff's fantastic football book Collision Low Crossers has the words "recrudescent" and "slapdickmotherfucker...

I was walking the dog early last Wednesday morning-- all the snow had frozen solid and in many places the sidewalks were coated with a sheet...

Kristyna -- the aforementioned fund raising queen -- not only raises more money for the holiday toy and clothing drive than the rest of our...

First, I admonish my child for spending an insanely long time in the shower, and then -- when he finally gets out of the shower -- I notice ...