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Another Long Journey to Genius
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We've had a dog in our house since January 2012. First was our beloved black lab and Weimaraner Sirius. He was a great dog, and he died ...
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My Screwdrivers Smell: A Haunting
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I was doing a big clean out down in my study-- otherwise known as Greasetruck Studios-- and I decided I would take a crack at solving the my...
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Ten Year Journey to Genius
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Every year at the end of October, there is a hellish week of school that combines two things that do not belong together: parent confere...
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Everyone is on all the Drugs
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Once upon a time, there were opium wars. And reefer madness. The hippies and Timothy Leary did LSD. The disco folks snorted coke, and Marion...
This Makes Me Happy
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There's an economic success story that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want to acknowledge: low wage workers have doubled thei...
Dave's Half-Day Fashion Sense Might Be Half-Baked
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This morning-- as a result of telling a co-worker that she was dressed like a real-estate agent-- I was forced to defend my fashion sense. I...
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Like Father, Like Mad Cartographer
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Last night, at Frankie Feds -- a thin crust pizza joint in Freehold that you should visit-- my son Alex said something inadvertently resonan...
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Feral Hogs!
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Nothing gets me more excited than feral hogs. So when one of my favorite podcasts, Reply All , dedicated an entire episode to this subject, ...
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Emergency Philosophy Lesson: Socrates, Daryl Morey, China, Hong Kong and the NBA
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As a teacher, sometimes it's good to plan ahead-- make a syllabus and stick to it, give your students a schedule and some order in their...
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Why Humblebrag When You Can Brag
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Here are a few things great things I'd like to commemorate for time immemorial . . . or as long as the internet lasts: 1) My older son A...
Dave is Empathetic About His Wife's Shortcomings (and she should reciprocate)
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My wife moves fast and gets things done. A downside of this is that she sometimes misplaces her stuff. The very first blog post I wrote on ...
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Shakespeare vs. Rudy Giulani
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The New York Times podcast The Daily recently aired an episode about Rudy Giulani's involvement with the Trump administration . At the ...
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Mini-Thursday is Monday in Disguise
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We have off this Wednesday for Yom Kippur, and since I'm not Jewish, I don't have to worry about fasting and atonement. It's jus...
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Despite Trump, Things Are Getting Better
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The new episode of "Making Sense," a conversation between Sam Harris and Andrew McAfee, is generally positive and inspirational (...
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Last Licks (A Life Lesson)
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I walk our dog every morning at 6 AM. It's pitch black. I take her down to the park because the lights by the tennis court are always on...
Spotswood Redux
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As far as coaching goes, I have a pretty sweet deal. I now coach my hometown JV team. The field is two hundred yards from my house (sometime...
The Last of the Tomatillos: A Narrative of 2019
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This had better be the end of summer (not that threatening the Weather Gods has ever been successful or mentally healthy). I really tried to...
Unemployed! In Greenland!
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The other day, a couple of guidance counselors came down to my classroom and explained the ins and outs of applying to college. Once they we...
Big Jay Oakerson Works the Crowd
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Going to The Stress Factory in New Brunswick is always fascinating, especially when there are several opening acts. We went this Friday with...
Two Great Things About Our Basement Shower
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When you utilize our basement shower, not only do you get to avoid the queue for the upstairs shower-- and we only have one shower upstairs ...
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The Turn of the Page
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Ruth Ware's new thriller The Turn of the Key certainly evokes the mood and themes of the classic Henry James novel The Turn of the Sc...
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Spite is Expensive
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Last Thursday, I went to the pub after Back to School Night. It was a long day, and I was a bit wound up (although that is no excuse for my ...
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High Heels and a Morning Surprise
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There's no question that when you're hard at work, it's always exciting to a get an unexpected text from your lovely wife, espec...
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Monday, Garfield Style
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I normally don't mind Mondays-- my existential woes usually come to a head on Tuesdays-- but this morning I felt Garfield's curse...
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All Downhill From Here?
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Congratulations are in order because I've survived the longest week of the school year: a full five days of coaching and teaching (right...
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Back to School Night Blues
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It's impossible to be in a good mood when you know that 12 hours after you show up to school, you're going to do it all again: run t...
Traffic Cone = Cinema
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Heraclitus warned us that "the only constant is change." For many years, the American school system eluded this inevitability, but...
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Do You Respect Wood? I Respect Wood
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Do you respect wood? I respect wood, but-- luckily-- so does my wife, so I won't have to divorce her. In fact, it's my wife who sug...
All Hail The Town-Wide Garage Sale
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It's over. We cleaned out, set up, and raked it in. All day Saturday and half of Sunday, my wife channeled the soul of an Ottoman bazaar...
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Some Hard Things Are Harder Than Other Hard Things
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I often see people running on concrete and I want to yell to them: "Don't run on concrete! It's much harder than asphalt!"...
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Some Bueno Advice
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Head down Woodbridge Avenue to the Edison Tex-Mex Deli and get the al pastor tacos-- I promise you won't be disappointed: the pork and ...
Dave Parks the Bus
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Someone (or something) has hacked my Blogger account and so Sentence of Dave keeps doing weird stuff, which is as good a reason as any to ...
Dave's Not Here, Man, He's Over at PARK THE BUS
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There's something weird going on with my Blogger account, so I'm closing up shop at Sentence of Dave and posting all my sentences, ...
Double Technological Miracle Sunday!
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Freedom! Yesterday, with the help of my wife-- who claims she is an expert in Velcro-- we installed a magnetic screen door behind our slidin...
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Double Technological Miracle Sunday!
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Freedom! Yesterday, with the help of my wife-- who claims she is an expert in Velcro-- we installed a magnetic screen door behind our ...
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In The Meantime . . . a Bout of Namenesia
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Blogger has been acting weird since Friday, and so I wasn't able to post yesterday or this morning . . . here's what went on: Soc...
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In The Meantime . . . a Bout of Namenesia
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Blogger has been acting weird since Friday, and so I wasn't able to post yesterday or this morning . . . here's what went on: 1) ...
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They Might Actually Be Nice
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I told my colleagues in the English Office that my students seem really nice this year, and Chantal said, "They always seem nice for th...
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They Might Actually Be Nice
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I told my colleagues in the English Office that my students seem really nice this year, and Chantal said, "They always seem nice for th...
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Barking Up the Right Tree
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I couldn't figure out why my dog Lola was barking like mad, trying to scale a thick oak tree, so I took some time and looked through the...
Barking Up the Right Tree
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I couldn't figure out why my dog Lola was barking like mad, trying to scale a thick oak tree, so I took some time and looked throug...
Technology Marches On, Sweeping Dave Along With It
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We've got new devices and new LMS (Learning Management Software) this year at my school and it's all making me feel very old: the sc...
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Technology Marches On, Sweeping Dave Along With It
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We've got new devices and new LMS (Learning Management Software) this year at my school and it's all making me feel very old: the sc...
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It's Over (Except for the Crying)
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Nothing coherent to report: I'm in a befuddled haze from endless first-day-of-school meetings, room preparation, running soccer practice...
It's Over (Except for the Crying)
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Nothing coherent to report: I'm in a befuddled haze from endless first-day-of-school meetings, room preparation, running soccer practice...
Mrs. Bridge, Dave, and Socrates Walk into a Bar
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I don't know how I missed this one, but Evan S. Connell's 1959 novel Mrs. Bridge is a weird and understated modern classic, funny an...
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Mrs. Bridge, Dave, and Socrates Walk into a Bar
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I don't know how I missed this one, but Evan S. Connell's 1959 novel Mrs. Bridge is a weird and understated modern classic, funny an...
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Summer is Over (Time to Wash Off the Vaseline)
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As usual, the greased-watermelon-rugby-polo-challenge signified another summer in the books-- and this was an especially epic summer (a trip...
Summer is Over (Time to Wash Off the Vaseline)
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As usual, the greased-watermelon-rugby-polo-challenge signified another summer in the books-- and this was an especially epic summer (a trip...
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