Sentence of Dave

We went to Philadelphia over the weekend and took in two excellent exhibits at The Franklin Institute; the first is called Body World: Anima...

Last Tuesday, Alex and I went to soccer practice without Ian, because he pulled his quad; practice was a bit chaotic because everyone was sh...

The English Department has gotten a bit neurotic with their eating and exercise habits (this was mainly fueled by a school-wide "Bigges...

I have no problem with Constitutional textualist Ted Cruz enrolling in an Obamacare health plan-- though he staunchly disapproves of the Af...

Now that the snow and ice is gone, my dog Sirius and I are totally in the groove-- every morning, I walk him in a loop and he defecates righ...

My wife found three pairs of prescription glasses in my son's desk drawer-- he claims to have found them "in the middle of the road...

On Monday, I started my fortnight of health: no weekday beer drinking, no junk food, and -- paradoxically-- no sports or heavy exercise . . ...

For the doomsayers, events like 9/11, the latest financial collapse (and the solution to the latest financial collapse . . . three trilli...

At soccer practice last week, the wind was so strong that when we took the balls out of the bag, they all blew away and ended up across the ...

Harry Bosch investigates two cases at the same time in Michael Connelly's The Drop . . . a cold one involving a sexual predator and ...

 Not only did I teach the kids a bunch of stuff at school this week, but I learned three things too: 1) one of my students has a sister ...

While the PARCC test itself doesn't seem to be too grueling for students (although some kids have been "clicking through" and ...

My English class was discussing the fourth scene of Act IV of Hamlet , when Hamlet talks to the army Captain and-- as he watches all these b...

Drones have officially become "toasters"-- which, in economic terms, are technological items that are so cheap to produce that it&...

My son Ian was telling some "your llama" jokes Sunday night-- these are essentially "yo mama" jokes using the word "...

If you like hard-boiled mysteries and you like bones, than Michael Connelly's City of Bones  is the book for you-- Harry Bosch gets ...

Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich usually nerd it up each week investigating something scientific, but they've recently don...

All the great bands have a song with "monkey" in the title . . . Brass Monkey, Monkey Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Shock the Monkey...

I was waiting in line at the Autozone to buy some stuff so I could do some work on my car (I needed to refill the  washer fluid  reservoir, ...

I always use my mouth to start peeling a clementine-- doesn't everyone?-- but a student saw me doing this and she advised me that "...