Sentence of Dave

This week on The Test ,  I quiz the ladies on some "highbrow stuff" and we all perform admirably-- Stacey invents a jazz musicia...

You can't just own the cell-phone, you also have to charge the cell-phone and carry the cell-phone on your person (if you want your wife...

I can hear Zman's voice in my head as I write this-- and so: Yes Zman, I know . . . there are two kinds of people, people who divide peo...

Alexander von Humboldt is largely forgotten (aside from the Humboldt Current and the Humboldt Squid) but he was the most intrepid and fa...

At first, when I realized someone had stolen my snow shovel off my front porch on Saturday afternoon, during the height of the blizzard, I w...

In December my audio streaming service, Rdio , bit the dust . . . according to the company's design lead, Wilson Miner, the service was ...

Friday night, my wife was driving down Route 1 and she did double take when she read the big electronic variable message sign . . . she was ...

It's a rare occurrence, but I always relish when my wife screws up-- in fact, it's the topic of the very first Sentence of Dave -- a...

There's nothing better on a snowy day, just after you've shoveled out the mouth of your driveway (and then the plow comes by again a...

Open the poop bag when you are in the house, before  you venture out in the the cold with your dog, because it's very difficult to pry o...

When we were young and wild, my wife and I shared a toothbrush-- and this went on for over a decade; now that we're mature, we have our ...

Back in November, I took some flak in the comments for calling jazz vocalization "unbearable," and so I'd like to present Ex...

The Netflix documentary  Making a Murderer is sometimes compelling, sometimes boring, sometimes biased and sometimes soporific . . . my wife...

A banner week: two epic journeys, one for each child; 1) after a packed Sunday of sporting events-- I played indoor soccer and coached my ...

There's no need for The Voice of God this week on The Test , because Cunningham provides everything you wanted to know about Salvador Da...

I'm not sure if you can spoil a show that's sixteen years old, but if you've never seen Freaks and Geeks , you need to watch it ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson espoused the transcendental notions that "nature always wears the colors of the spirit" and "there is a k...

God knows why, but my son has chosen the "diorama" option for a school project, and while I hate dioramas-- and question their ...

I have two reasons for this brief moment of chronological dyslexia: 1) I never use chapstick; 2) it was early in the morning; and I wo...

My friend and colleague Stacey was so amused by this comment thread  in response to this sentence that she printed it out and taped it to t...