Sentence of Dave

I was pleased to learn that Hillary Clinton agreed with me on the importance of Robert D. Putnam's new book Our Kids: The American Dream...

My son Ian scored his first header goal yesterday-- he launched himself into the air to connect with a line drive corner kick, headed the ba...

I hereby declare that next year I will NOT participate in fantasy football, which is not fantastic at all and actually wallows in its mundan...

Planet Money Episode 387: The No-Brainer Economic Platform  may be four years old, but it's more relevant today than ever-- the show pre...

For once Google Play Music recommended exactly what I desired-- though I had no clue that I desired this thing-- an album by the French el...

The new episode of  This American Life  preaches to the choir, and will definitely not be heard by people that need to hear it (like the peo...

Sometimes, when I'm bopping around, I get really happy and think: "My phone plays music!"

I did an assignment in Creative Writing called "Where Do Good Ideas Come From?" and my students had four reading/listening options...

I'm going to go out on a limb here: this is the best episode of The Test    we've ever done . . . it contains the most brilliant q...

While reality has been scary enough recently: I just learned that Trump is an anti-vaxxer, which is more disturbing than the racism, the se...

Tuesday, a student played a song by Twenty One Pilots in class for a presentation, and this was the first time I heard the band and I told t...

I've got nothing to offer today, I'm still recovering from yesterday's unseasonably warm weather-- which, combined with proctori...

It was a manly day:  I bullied my friend Rob for tweeting this silliness, ran a morning soccer practice, then I took the dog for a bike ride...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs is true story of grit, determination, and social class, and -- oddly-- one of the mo...

I was driving my car, learning about the architecture of the human brain (apparently the difference between the human brain and a desktop co...

When you're napping on the couch on a beautiful fall afternoon, but you want to get motivated, so you can enjoy the day, one of the fast...

My son Ian may not do a lot of things that we tell him-- e.g. brush his teeth, pick up his shoes, do his homework, practice his trombone...

This SNL Skit is not nearly as funny (and not nearly as infuriating) as the real story behind Wells Fargo's fraudulent account scand...

From a distance, it looked purposeful and malevolent-- so many tennis balls hurtling over the fence-- but upon closer inspection, it turned ...

This week on The Test , Stacey opens a crazy can of worms and we take a journey through time, space, and permanent body art . . . as a bonus...