Sentence of Dave

Yesterday was quite a day for sports: I got up at 5:00 AM to watch the epic Nadal/Medvedev Australian Open Match, but I had to interrupt my ...

I played indoor soccer for 90 minutes this morning and my Fitbit registered just under 11,000 steps (4.8 miles) which is the perfect amount ...

Watching Station Eleven   during a blustery snow day is a treat-- when you go out to shovel snow and clean off the cars and walk the dog in ...

Joe Rogan seems to be taking a lot of flak from the media right now, and when you talk for three or four hours with someone, there's alw...

I thought I disliked cooking but it turns out I like to cook if the rest of the family goes to the gym and I can drink, etc. and listen to w...

I didn't really explain yesterday's post title (Dave Eschews the Metaverse) but basically, I listened to this podcast  and decided t...

I'm happy to report that for the first time in a while, I played tennis on Saturday morning and then was able to stretch out and put on ...

I played Bud today in the tennis league and beat him fairly handily (although it was 2-2 at the start, I won 11-5 and went ahead 9-3 at one...

My friend and colleague Liz showed me an intriguing video this morning and it was perfect for class: we've been reading an excerpt by An...

I recently listened to Ezra Klein interview Annie Murphy Paul and her ideas were so inspirational and invigorating that I read her new boo...

Congratulations are in order: I walked into the English Office this morning and was greeted by a four-pack of incredibly tempting cupcakes f...

My wife complained about how close the Mazda was parked to the house . . . but upon reflection, she realized that SHE PARKED IT THERE.

My wife and I finally saw The Book of Mormon-- the tickets were a fiftieth birthday present but then the pandemic hit, so I took us nearly t...

In the third Longmire novel, Kindness Goes Unpunished,  Craig Johnson inserts Sheriff Longmire, Henry Standing Bear, and Dog into Vic Morett...

I beat my buddy Cob 12-3 today in the 7 AM Tennis League for the Insane, Obsessive and Otherwise Mentally Ill and here are my notes, reflect...

Today I learned something new-- and serendipitously complementary to the book I finished yesterday : Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar kept ...

Mary Roach's new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law  tackles man vs. nature in a legal, humanistic sense-- what is to be done when na...

I'm killing it today, healthwise . . . I've already been to the gym-- where I played some basketball-- and I'm also killing it f...

It's frigid today-- so cold that Lola dragged me home from her walk-- after she did her business, she was like LET'S GO . . . WE COU...

Catherine tested negative for COVID . . . so she has the cold that I had; meanwhile, I am still on remote school, which feels oddly disembod...