Sentence of Dave

An excellent end to 2016: a great day of snowboarding/skiing at Bromley Mountain . . . or a great day of East Coast snowboarding/skiing-- so...

Robert Gordon's book The Rise and Fall of American Growth asserts that some economic advances are unrepeatable-- technological innovat...

On the map, Westminster, Vermont looks fairly close to Bromley Mountain (Google Maps and my GPS say 22 miles) but we learned today that this...

Our first day of vacation in the woods of Vermont was an odd mix of country living and science-fiction: 1) I supervised a wood delivery (t...

After a violent bout of freezing rain last night, we are enjoying some unseasonably warm Vermont weather today; Catherine and I took the dog...

Despite some freezing rain and wacky conflicts between the GPS, Google Maps, and MapQuest, we made it to our Vermont AirBnB rental cabin in ...

Perfunctory sentence . . . we are in the midst of packing everything we own into the minivan so that we can transport it to a tiny cabin in ...

After unwrapping our Xmas booty, my wife sent me on a last-minute-Xmas-errand; she needed eggs and a can of whipped cream so she could make ...

Nicholson Baker, the post-modernist who wrote an entire novel ( The Mezzanine ) about an escalator ride, has produced his weirdest piece of ...

Watching a cooking show after dinner is like watching pornography after sex.

Apparently America is not ready for a female president yet, and so the women will have to head back to the kitchen for the next four years...

If you 're looking for a neo-noir thriller with moral ambiguity, compelling characters, and a slow burn, a movie in the vein of all thos...

If you're looking for something to listen to in the vein of Serial , check out Crimetown  . . . the first season investigates organized ...

I'm always trying to think of age-appropriate monikers for my ill-fated, slow-moving music projects (Almighty Yojo, Greasetruck, The Den...

We took the kids to see Rogue One , the new Star Wars movie, and while I wouldn't recommend it-- it is loud, frenetic, and exhausting-- ...

Personalize your own photo collage I finally convinced my wife to send a digital card instead of contributing to the environmental-ma...

Amidst all the awful information Callum Roberts imparts about the state of our oceans in his book The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and th...

I've been pretty good this year about controlling my Xmas Ranting . . . maybe it's because my children have moved beyond The Age of...

J. D. Vance's bestseller  Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is an excellent primer for liberal city folks who ...

We've made seventy episodes of The Test , and Stacey decided it was about time to administer  a random drug test . . . Cunningham and I ...