Not Sure If This Would Be Good or Bad . . .

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I have two typically scatterbrained kids -- they forget clothing, water bottles, musical instruments, homework projects, and whatever task t...
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Losing Your Noodle

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Aristotle, an all around smart guy, believed that t he heart was the seat of our thoughts ; now, of course, we know that our thoughts or...
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It's Fun To Pass Judgement (from the Confines of a Motor Vehicle)

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When you're cruising along without a care but the other side of the road has traffic piled up for miles, I know what you're thinking...
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Goblins, Corduroy, and Synth Pop

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I wasn't much of a film buff in high school (my movie watching was limited to Monty Python  flicks, Surf II , and anything that might...

Robotrons, Methy Mikes, and Big Mitches

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Colson Whitehead's new book The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death  should be more fun than it is; Grantland  paid the $10,000 s...
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger? We'll See . . .

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I like to paddleboard on the Raritan River, mainly as a matter of convenience, as I live only a few hundred yards from a boat launch, and t...
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Lesson Learned (I Instigate an Awkward Moment at the Pub)

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If you are at your local pub, and an inebriated stranger approaches you and asks whether he should play Molly Hatchet or The Allman Brothers...
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Low Pressure Hello

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Fellow New Jerseyans (New Jerseyites?) let us take a moment to give a warm welcome to an old friend we haven't seen (or felt) in a long ...
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Silver Bullet For a Fourth Grader

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Before After The bane of the elementary school boy is The School Project (and consequently, The School Project is also the bane...
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Dirty White Boys

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I've taught high school for nearly twenty years, and I'm still surprised by what will galvanize a class discussion; the other day in...

Small Talk With Big Payoff

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It's always a struggle for me to make small talk with the people at work that are not members of the English department, but Friday I ha...
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Seventeen Second Tour of Human Consciousness

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Human cognition is still essentially a black box -- stimuli, filtered through our senses, enters our consciousness, this stuff is invis...
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And Now For Something Completely Different

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Fans of Sentence of Dave  know my son eight year old son Ian as a  foul-mouthed   candy-hoarder who once  "betrayed the family"  ...
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Empirical Evidence Trumps the Label

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While walking the dog in the rain on Friday afternoon, I learned something valuable: my waterproof Columbia jacket is only a windbreaker.

If You Were to Actually Get Three Wishes, You Should Go Nuts With Them

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My son Ian decided that if you make it to "your thirties," then you should be rewarded with three wishes, but when I asked him w...
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There's No Crying in Silicon Valley!

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While we all know that "there's no crying in baseball," apparently the same isn't true about founding the most successfu...
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iPod, I Name Thee Lazarus

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One of the perks of writing a trivial blog filled with drivel is that I can fact-check extremely mundane details from my life; for exampl...
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A Belated Happy Mother's Day to Hannah Duston?

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To determine if you are going to purchase a  Hannah Duston bobble-head doll (pictured above) and to decide whether Hannah Duston is the g...

We Look at Big Things and Small Things at Rutgers Day

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We went over to Busch campus for this year's Rutgers Day, and the highlights were getting a tour of the electron microscope-- it's o...
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My Family Is No Threat to the Jackson Five

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This year for Mother's Day the boys and I composed a song for Catherine and then recorded a video of us performing it. . . and it took...
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