Sentence of Dave

My wife-- who loves to distort idioms into new phrases that often make better sense than the original -- read the weather forecast and notic...

The best part about Send Help -- a gory, over-the-top Sam Raimi survival thriller-- is that frumpy, nerdy Linda from accounting, played by R...

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons give riveting performances in the wacky Yorgos Lanthimos film Bugonia-- you won't be able to turn away; the...

Today, in preparation for a Valentine's Day dinner with my wife, I went to Archar Seafood in Somerset and bought some very expensive swo...

Since I teach high school, I rarely get gifts from students-- occasionally, because of my last name, a kid gives me some sort of pelican tot...

My wife and I finished the first season of The Night Manager--  and while the show certainly delivers John le Carré-style espionage, corrupt...

I had a generally lovely day off today . . . until this afternoon: I went and got an X-ray on my knee (including the extra-special "sun...

It's a balmy 36 degrees Fahrenheit today, so I suppose I'll take my dog for a walk on the ice fields in the park.

Another visit to Dr. Navia (and yet another cute young intern) for my right knee, which has been hurting pretty much whenever I'm not mo...

We braved the cold with our old friends Mel, Ed, Rob, and Julie in Princeton yesterday: after lunch, we explored the recently opened Princet...

My son Alex, who lives with his girlfriend in a studio apartment in New Brunswick, burned his hands with cooking oil while cleaning up last ...

I was reviewing the structure of a synthesis body paragraph in my College Writing class, and I told them they really needed to explain the c...

February . . . the best month if you get paid bimonthly, because it has fewer days, and therefore, you get paid more per hour!

Today was our last midterm, and tomorrow begins the third quarter, so though it seems we are in the dead of winter and there is no end to sc...

My right knee hurts-- pretty much all the time-- so either the cortisone shot has worn off, or the cold weather has made my synovial fluid l...

I didn't have to proctor any midterms today-- which is a wonderful day to take off from school because you don't have to leave any p...

Last night, I introduced the Canadian game "crokinole" to some friends, and while much fun was had by all, there was also some com...

My dog Lola is growing bored-- this cold snap has prevented her from walking the trails, paths, and sidewalks, and she hasn't visited th...

  So it turns out that I DO have the powers of precognitive vocifery and psionic verbal manifestation because when Brady, Strachan, and I we...

Not only did I lose my ID and scan-in card yesterday, which caused me difficulty getting in and out of the building and making photocopies (...