Sentence of Dave

The purpose of Wes Anderson's film  The Grand Budapest Hotel is to remind you how funny it is to watch people run around . . .  the si...

I'm not sure if this is a spoonerism or simply a transposition of words , but several times last week, I called Orphan Black--  the Cana...

I don't consider myself susceptible to things other people fall prey to-- broken bones, arthritis, back pain, mortality, the constraints...

Charles Seife may come off as a stick-in-the-mud, but his new book Virtual Unreality  is chock full of examples of the "trickery, fa...

After I gave my spiel at Back to School Night-- and the way it works is that you run through your day's schedule, except that each ...

For me, finishing Megan Abbott's novel The Fever  was like surviving a nasty roller-coaster ride without puking-- I don't like rolle...

I am a disorganized person, and I don't write lists or keep a calendar or use any other aid to remedy my scattered brain . . . or so I t...

A big thumbs up for the MorningStar Chipotle Black Bean Burgers . . . going vegetarian is less taxing on the environment, saves loads of ...

Last year, when the Wawa checkout guy asked me how big my coffee thermos was, I said "20 ounces, I think" and since then I've ...

One of the advantages of living in a small town is that people you know might see your kids doing something stupid and report it back to you...

To baseball fans, a "four-bagger" is a home run, but if you own a dog, it's a particularly full day of fecal clean-up; last Tu...

While my son Alex is very good at entertaining himself, my other son -- Ian-- often has trouble in this department, and he's also stubbo...

I hadn't talked to this particular neighbor  since Hurricane Sandy, but I saw him the other night while I was walking the dog and there ...

For the past few months, my grill ignition lighter has been performing poorly, but last weekend -- serendipitously-- I ripped the cap off th...

My 5th Generation iPod Nano died the other day and I'm trying to make do with an iPod Touch-- which I know is an absurd statement, since...

There's nothing like getting to the bottom of a mystery, especially when you break a man under interrogation and he gives himself up . ....

I'll never understand why local cops in movies and on TV shows get so upset when "the Feds" take over their case . . . if some...

One of the great things about teaching is that if you find something that works, you get to use it over and over on each new batch of studen...

You know it's been a long day when you fall asleep during an episode of Orphan Black.

This time, Dave didn't make the situation awkward, someone else did, and I'll keep it vague to protect all parties involved, but I w...