Sentence of Dave

  My wife makes her own granola (and now I'm spoiled: it's much more delicious than store-bought).

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there . . . but honestly, considering how easy it is to become a dad-- I won't get into th...

If you're looking for some music recs, my buddy Deatz has started a zine-like blog called Deatz Beats , where he posts playlists and odd...

At my age and fitness level, the rules of the game seem to be: no impact sports (pickleball, basketball, soccer, tennis) two days in a row--...

Teenagers don't know who Paul Simon is.

It's nearly summer, and so I'm taking a break from Robert Caro's twelve-hundred-page bio of Robert Moses, The Power Broker , and...

Today was the best possible weather-- sunny and dry and 78 degrees-- and I know other parts of the country experience this regularly (fuck y...

  The last days of school with seniors are taxing and silly-- there's nothing at stake, most of them are exempt from the final exam, and...

  It nearly killed me (and Shakespeare is to blame . . . too many things happen in this section of the play), but I have finally finished my...

I was midway through Jane Harper's fantastic (and very grim) Australian thriller The Dry  when I realized the Libby Kindle loan had expi...

I took my last personal day today, and it's been a pretty good day, pretty pretty good . . . I walked the dog-- no barkin', no smog-...

I went out and had a couple of beers for the first half of the Knicks game last night-- 3 dollar Miller Lights at our local bar!-- then I wa...

Today, after a soupy day at school, I went to the YMCA pool to swim laps, and I would like to say "I came, I swam, I conquered," b...

Our principal sat my friend and colleague Stacey down at the prom and asked her if I was returning to teach next year or if I was perhaps se...

I heard an excellent Built to Spill  song a couple of weeks ago on my buddy Whitney's radio show, and since then, I've been playing ...

No rest for the wicked today (or the good, as my wife got a lot of shit done as well) but I went to bed early last night; awoke early; finis...

The end of my plumbing saga is both disheartening and instructive-- I called my buddy the plumber on Friday afternoon, and he had just gott...

Today was a weird half-day at school-- it's prom night, but the powers-that-be also thought it would be a great day for the After the Fi...

I'm not sure how Dave Martsch's indie project/band "Built to Spill" flew under my radar for so many years-- but I am enjoy...

I went to Home Depot, bought some threaded tape and gaskets, hooked everything up, twisted a bunch of knobs, tightened some shit, and then g...