Sentence of Dave

Today is my wife's birthday-- Happy Birthday Cat!-- and while I'll preserve her feminine mystique and not reveal her exact age, I wi...

My wife made an appetizer for Thanksgiving called Maple Caramel Bacon Crack  . . . crack as in the drug crack . . . we had to explain what t...

Friday morning, my ten year old son Ian rode his longboard to Stop & Shop, bought a package of strawberries, made it home without incide...

I finished Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House  this morning-- if you haven't read it (and I hadn't until now, though many of...

Stanley Elkin's novel The Dick Gibson Show-- published in 1970-- is the story of an itinerant radioman on an infinite apprenticeship wit...

According to urban legend, "red mercury" is a incredibly rare substance which is attracted to gold and repelled by garlic, and it ...

Stacey demanded another quiz about numbers and I was more than happy to comply; the result is the best episode of The Test  yet . . . Cunnin...

Normally here at Sentence of Dave I like to focus on the life's negatives -- this is where I do my literary grousing and grapple with ex...

I recently went off my parent's cell phone plan, and since I'm cheap and a disciple of Neal Postman -- and I sincerely haven't m...

Yesterday, on my wife's instructions, I went to the post office and bought a roll of one hundred Forever Stamps and I had one envelope t...

After school on Thursday I attended my friend Stacey's renegade zumba class (it's renegade because she's not certified) and I am...

A perfect confluence of bizarre events nearly brought my brain to its knees recently, but luckily I have this blog where I can mix metaphors...

I'm very sleepy this morning because we watched the final episode of Mad Men last night, and while I won't reveal any spoilers to t...

Friday night my wife went out with some ladies, and the boys and I were left to our own devices; we decided on take-out burgers and film a...

Last week, I was walking home with the dog, annoyed that when I got back I would have to rake up all the wet leaves on my lawn and bag them-...

In this week's episode of The Test , Princess Cunningham quizzes Stacey and I on all things Disney; I do poorly-- which is to be expecte...

Although people love to pontificate about the differences between cats and dogs, in a gastronomical sense they are the same: we don't ea...

I always though a two-handed backhand was for kids and women, but apparently most men are hitting it now as well . . . and while I have a s...

In case I don't make it through the next couple of days, I'd like to thank all my readers for their encouragement and support . . . ...

While I was certainly impressed by the breadth of hip restaurants in Chelsea, if you don't feel like schlepping all the way to the city,...