Sentence of Dave

We were on the road this morning before  5 AM (4:54 AM to be precise) but we still hit standstill traffic at the Bourne Bridge.

Two podcasts that opened my mind and altered my thoughts on political issues: 1)  The Daily: Justice Kennedy's Last Decison  . . . I a...

The film  Ladybird is sweet and touching and funny and true (and apparently quite emotional if you're a woman and you were mean to you...

Most educated people are dimly aware that time is relative-- clocks run slower when gravity is stronger and movement, confounded by the spee...

Michael S, Gazzaniga is one of our most celebrated neuroscientists and his new book certainly demonstrates this; The Consciousness Instinct:...

Our new dog is learning to run alongside me while I bike (she's attached to the bike by a bungie cord) and while she trots along at a pr...

The Test   is back and better than ever (or maybe exactly the same as ever) and for the start of this new season, I take one for the team,...

I'm too exhausted from the Germany/Sweden game to write anything decent.

When I first got my Father's Day T-Shirt, I was confused-- Tantalum? Cobalt? What?-- but then I noticed that the abbreviations-- "T...

Teaching is a weird job-- sometimes it feels like it's all introductions and conclusions-- and when the year ends and you wave goo...

I'd like to thank my dedicated readers for pointing out yesterday's gaffe; I thought the word "tone" to myself while writi...

The setting of  Drown , Juno Diaz's collection of short stories about Dominican immigrants making their way in America in the 1980's...

If you want to thoroughly wallow in the fact that the U.S. didn't qualify for this World Cup, spend your time in between games listening...

Three world cup games and Father's Day are a good combination (I think there's a some local golf tournament going on as well).

Yesterday I did 6 AM basketball and then played in a corn-hole tournament at our end of year party, and today is a block party on the street...

Despite all the physics and quantum science, the final message of Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time  is that our perception of time and ...

It's weird . . .the older and grouchier I get, the more the students like me-- and while I'm honored and flattered for ...

Yesterday was my son Alex's class trip to Dorney Park and my wife suggested that he not bring his cell-phone because he would surely lo...

Stepping in dog poop no fun unless you don't notice until you've walked all the way across the house.

Friday, Ian rode his bike from school to the Friday Farm Market, locked his bike to a tree, bought two servings of pad thai at the pad thai ...