Sentence of Dave

If you're like me (or Linda from Bob's Burgers) you might occasionally sing original songs about whatever the hell is going on rig...

The Hidden Brain episode "Group Think"  explains why Canadians like honey and maple syrup equally . . . UNLESS they are reminded t...

Tuesday is obviously the worst day of the week-- it has none of the earnest go-getter initiative of Monday, none of the hump-day inspiration...

Last night at a birthday party, while we were discussing life, death, birth etcetera, my friend Alec and I figured out what to say when you ...

If you're looking for some sensitive and thoughtful fiction, you're probably not going to like Lee Child's first Jack Reacher no...

My son Alex had a rough afternoon on the pitch today-- it was hot and we were playing a very tough South River team on their insane grass fi...

This picture of my high school's "terminal" hallway says it all about "hygiene theater"-- today at cafeteria duty, t...

School is absurd right now-- we wear masks in class, but then we go to the cafeteria and 500-plus kids eat together without masks (and I sup...

My older son Alex-- a senior in high school-- had a good day on Friday; he learned he was starting at left-back in the soccer game on Saturd...

According to North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, there's no such thing as a starving artist-- if you're foraging for grasshoppers and...

James Shapiro's book Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future  is far more fun and compelling ...

Teenage boys are often the worst about basic common sense and safety-- for example, they leave the burners on in the kitchen and go elsewher...

According to this article in Slate,  morning people (larks) had a much better chance of seeing that black and blue dress that took the inter...

I'm a compact guy, so no more following around-- I'm going to hit a compact two-handed backhand . . . and I might even chip it with ...

This morning my shoulder felt awful, my legs were sore, and I was still a little slick from the vaseline . . . which are all good things as ...

Here are some pics of the Hurrican Ida floodwaters in Highland Park and New Brunswick . . . pretty wild-- for two days, our house was rivers...

I thought that when our coffee maker broke, that was the perfect ending for this summer-- but it wasn't-- the perfect ending was a monst...

On my final day of summer (but my wife is reporting to work today) the coffee maker broke, which is the perfect end to this summer of lost a...

I've got to report to work on Thursday, and this is what I've done so far on my penultimate day of summer: 1) went to the dog park a...

We picked up our 2018 Mazda CX-5 today from Open Road Honda, we were looking for a CR-V or a RAV4 but we got a great deal (after a lot of br...