Sentence of Dave

Why did I think I needed this size container for this amount of food?

This sentence is more practical than most of the drivel on this blog, as I need to present this example to my students in a few weeks, when ...

If you like to think about old people having sex, or your mother having sex, or you're just a fan of the Bard of Stratford upon Avon, th...

One of the things I love about reading is that it offers total unadulterated freedom of choice -- though I may have several books out fro...

When the little light comes on that indicates that your car is low on windshield washer fluid, not only do you have to purchase more windshi...

I may not rescue old ladies from burning buildings or dig wells for the indigent, but I did bag and toss at least ten piles of poop at the d...

Thursday morning I woke up sore but satisfied, as the night before -- at our weekly Over-30 basketball pick-up game, I had one of the best s...

Though I knew it was a bad idea, I tried to pick up and bag my dog's poop with my gloves on, because it was so cold and snowy, and -- of...

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swamp rabbit (and the administration could neither confirm nor deny if this rabbit was in...

Though I didn't plan it, I ended up simultaneously reading Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life,  by Alex Bellos, and Play Their Hea...

For the second time this season, I had to coach our rec basketball team alone-- normally I am the assistant coach, but the head coach couldn...

The This American Life podcast   "Good Guys"  is a mixed bag, but the last story (Act 4) takes a turn into strange territory -- an...

It's hard to be a bad ass when you live on Valentine Street.

Normally, the dads in my town go to the pub on Thursday night, and the locals and regulars tolerate us well enough, but Wednesday night, wit...

I'm not sure which is more outlandish, Sharknado or the second season of Homeland, but what I do know is that I need to temper the emot...

Amazon recently produced an editor's list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime   and while I'm not making any accusation, this does so...

I am still searching unsuccessfully for a light read . . . one of my students gave me a copy of John Green's Looking for Alaska, and I&#...

My boys and their friend were building a snow fort in the icy slush last week, and they were obviously preparing for an apocalyptic snowball...

Last November, after a beautiful hike in Vermont, my wife said to the boys, with complete sincerity: "Thanks, I had a really great day ...

After finishing George Packer's extremely depressing book The Unwinding , I decided to read something lighter, and so I turned to a book...