Sentence of Dave

A bird shit on my driver-side car door handle last night, but instead of wiping it off, I gingerly opened the door-- gripping the handle wit...

I was pleasantly surprised (and pleasantly horrified) by Colson Whitehead's novel  The Underground Railroad . . .  I assumed that becaus...

Early Sunday morning at the dog park, behind the bench, in the shadow of the bench, there was a white bench-shaped outline of rime-frost on ...

This is the episode of The Test  we recorded the day after the election-- we decided we wanted to capture some audio as close to the incid...

The Chinese Curse is devastatingly simple: may you live in interesting times , and-- unless the Chinese Curse is a Chinese Hoax-- there is n...

Once in the English Office, our old boss once pronounced her love of email, because it saved her so much time, but my sagacious friend Mike ...

I'd like to assure Zman that yes I am working on a post about the election results, but I'm taking my time and trying to process and...

After suffering a wicked twenty-four hour stomach virus, I returned to work yesterday, tired but noticeably lighter, and no less than three ...

It is no secret that I am past my prime-- on the bell curve of life, I am on the other side of the peak, every day I slide a bit more toward...

The honey-drizzled toast I ate twenty minutes ago seems to be content inside my body, unlike all the other food I consumed in the past twent...

Despite her bronchial infection, Stacey presents a smart and topical quiz on political terms and issues . . . this one is short and swee...

The new episode of Freakonomics Radio: How to Make a Bad Decision  is a lesson in how subjective we are in all our judgements; major league ...

As a parent, it's wonderful when you see a trait in your child that you possess yourself, especially if it's something you consi...

Yesterday morning at school, I noticed that the hallways and cafeteria smelled weird (and if I noticed it smelled weird, then it really did ...

I am not a great debater . . . I tend to forget what want to say mid-argument, I am easily confused and side-tracked, I'm capricious and...

The Manasquan Dog Beach (Fisherman's Cove) is a bit smaller than I expected (and you're supposed to keep your dog on a leash, altho...

Despite our collective election hangover, Stacey, Cunningham and I got together on Wednesday, November 9th in order to record three epi...

During our three year stint in Damascus, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed a short period of time in the spring-- just after the desert rain...

If the Bourne Identity series and Good Will Hunting had a child, it would be  The Accountant-- a fairly absurd (but also fairly entertaini...

Here's a fun possibility in Trumperica: Trump scraps NAFTA, the peso tumbles even lower , causing a terrible recession in Mexico...