Sentence of Dave

My buddy Whitney responded to yesterday's sentence with an interesting question: "If you could get rid of either the wicked humid h...

The jury is out about how much the human mind remembers pain, but I know for certain that every winter, I forget how much I hate the heat . ...

On this very special episode of We Defy Augury , I interview my good friend and fledgling author Rob Russell . . .we discuss his new book &q...

No time to waste writing sentences, because I've got to mix the moss I scraped off a concrete block at the park with some yogurt and bee...

This week was so long and busy that it has inverted itself into an endless loop, turning my Friday energy into overwhelming Monday Mobius st...

Another successful GMC Tennis Tourney -- everyone advanced through the first round except Theo, who was exhausted from Passover fasting (tha...

Today at work the ladies organized a "sprinkle" for a teacher who is very pregnant with her second child (and leaving at the end o...

Sometimes, when you're a homeowner, you need to strap on the ol' aerating shoes and march around on your lawn to make tiny holes for...

One of the primary and profound questions that the play Hamlet explores is the opening line: "Who's there?" and so in class to...

Like many environmentally conscious lawn owners, I am converting my lawn to clover . . . clover doesn't require much maintenance or wate...

A long podcast episode deserves a long title-- and my newest episode of We Defy Augury   is my longest episode yet-- so I have titled it &...

Lowering the bar makes you less likely to trip over it.

If it's your wife, don't give any advice.

I recently learned (when reading  The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World by Damon Krukowski) how noise-canceling head...

This morning I made my triumphant return to 6:30 AM before school basketball-- we only had nine so we were playing full court four-on-four a...

So exciting: my friend just published a children's book  . . . even more exciting: in two days, I get to write a candid review of my fri...

I just finished an excellent book on the financial, philosophical, and aesthetic implications of our collective move from analog audio to di...

I love our new Hoover Shoulder Vac backpack vacuum so much that I made a little home for it in my study-- vacuuming is so much better when y...

Our match got canceled today due to some fortuitous wind and rain-- fortuitous because one of our players (Kai) is at Model UN and the other...

Rain and tennis are not a good combination-- the court gets slick, the balls get wet and skip instead of bouncing, and the ink runs in the l...