Sentence of Dave

The sentence is cancelled today because of absurdly unseasonable weather . . . I'll get back to you when it's forty degrees and rain...

This Kids in the Hall skit sums up our experience at Flavors of Manila , a Filipino restaurant Catherine and I went to Saturday night whil...

I'm always chastising my wife for beginning her stories with expository topic sentences: the funniest thing happened! you won't ...

I don't like scatological humor but I do feel obligated to take note of the incidents that happened today at lunch; we went to Shanghai ...

They say sunlight is the best antiseptic and this gun control issue is certainly getting some sunlight; this morning a bunch of dudes of var...

There's been a lot of discussion around my school about  Trump's proposal to arm teachers so they can prevent classroom massacres  a...

Tonight my wife decided the kids were old enough to know the truth . . . she explained to them that the much anticipated and celebrated ...

I am drinking some celebratory beer tonight for several reasons: 1) we got through a carnival of a workshop day in school . . . there were...

Today in Creative Writing class, we were extra-creative and came up with a pitch-perfect name for a bluegrass Bon Jovi cover band: Banjovi...

Some irate Parkland students addressed President Trump on "Face the Nation" and made an impassioned plea for him to do somethin...

Years ago-- for about thirty seconds-- I contemplated writing a book about the rise of the amateur . . . I was stupefied with the sheer mass...

An old school Saturday that reminds me why we bought a house in Highland Park, had kids, and rescued a dog . . . successful soccer practice ...

If one child is napping upstairs, it's not a good idea to send the other child to wake him up for dinner.

Happiness is a warm puppy . . . or giving a warm dog subcutaneous fluid treatment  if you can't make out what's going on in the ...

Catherine and I decided to forego chocolate this year (because we're both dieting and sugar is the devil incarnate) and we've go...

Not real: "Nosedive" . . . a glossy, fun, and satirical social-media-dystopia episode of Black Mirror . . . which is tragic for...

We thought it was curtains for our beloved family dog Sirius but after a three day stay at the pet hospital (don't ask about the bill)...

Quite a juxtaposition of streaming video consumption: last month my kids were watching the first season of  Breaking Bad  and now they'r...

I am a man of reason and so-- of course-- I don't believe in ghosts, I don't believe in a spirit world, lurking just beyond what w...

The brilliance and horror of Trump's "build a wall" campaign promise is that it's largely symbolic, of course; because of ...