David Altshuler, M.S.
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The Best College

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Tom Brady is a significantly better quarterback than Tim Tebow. In ten seasons, Brady has appeared in five Super Bowls, winning three of them; his career post season record of 16-5 is unparalleled; Brady has won two Super

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Hyper-Vigilant Attentive Disorder

As I’m writing the newsletter this week, I am also actively, if sporadically, engaged in returning phone calls, answering emails, planning my next trip to see therapeutic boarding schools in Utah, thinking about what I’m going to get for my wife for her birthday, and giving some serious thought to

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Silence IS Golden

What kind of house do you live in? 1) Are you living with Annie Oakley and Frank Butler (originally played by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton in the 1946 Broadway musical, “Annie Get Your Gun”?) Does your house resound with these lyrics? “I can do anything you can do better,

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What Good is Sitting Alone in Your Room…

Next week, there’s a 50 kilometer race in Connecticut. A hundred of my new best friends (whom I’ll likely never see again) as well as a few of the gang I’ve been running with for years are going to head up to Danbury, hurl ourselves into the void, and give

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What Have you Done for Me Next?

“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, When I met you. I picked you out, I shook you up, and turned you around; turned you into someone new. Now five years later on you’ve got the world at your feet, Success has been so easy for you.

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One is the Loneliest Number

My column this week is a “slippery slope” or “reducio ad absurdum” about what could happen if the kind of thinking in this piece: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonma/2012/04/01/why-to-start-preparing-for-college-in-sixth-grade/ were to flow to its natural conclusion. Here’s an except from the article that appeared in Forbes: “My other daughter is a different story. ‘Cutie

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Stumpers

Here’s a riddle you may enjoy: What do Winnie the Pooh and Atilla the Hun have in common? Of course, the answer will be supplied next week–unless a gentle reader posts a reply in the comments section on the website. In the meantime, the following hint–from Groucho Marx–may be of

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Essay: Friends without Benefits

Harry Bauld’s On Writing the College Application Essay may have turned 25 this year, but it remains the freshest, best book on the subject of the most dreaded 500 words a high school senior ever pens. Bauld’s scathing criticism of the essay he derides as “Pet Death”–“As I watched Buttons’s

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Bear With Me

Better writers than I have tried to describe that truly torrential, bone drenching, incessant rain storm where the water comes down in sheets, shows no signs of abating, and has soaked you through the skin going back generations. Not seeing any of these writers at a campsite on top of

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Let’s Make a Deal

Here’s a joke from 40 years ago. Let me know if you recognize it: A man comes home from work to see his two year-old son on the kitchen floor happily playing in a puddle of spilled milk. In the next room, the man observes his older son, age five,

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