Sentence of Dave

While teaching is a fulfilling and generally entertaining job, there are scary moments of repetition that remind me of Matthew Broderick i...

While I am driving, I see a lot of folks running alongside major roads -- roads with heavy traffic and no sidewalks -- and usually these roa...

Last weekend, I walked into New Brunswick with my wife and kids to get some dinner, and we stopped at the Wells Fargo ATM, and my son asked ...

In the first days of school, I make a point to learn the names of my high school students and I also try to learn a thing or two about them ...

Some things are more awesome and miraculous than others -- and while this may not be quite as awesome and miraculous as my perfect punt, I t...

My incredible punt last week has propelled me to new levels of confidence and motivation, and so on Saturday I tackled two rather involved t...

For those of you that visit here solely because you relish Dave's awkwardness , failures , pedantry, and bombast , you might want to ...

I'm pretty sure my friend and colleague Kevin is losing his mind; he forced me to watch the Miley Cyrus video for her song "Wrec...

 Before the words left my mouth, I knew I was crossing into shallow and pedantic territory . . . but I said it anyway; my colleague Stacey...

No matter how many times I say it to myself ( Shut the hose off when you leave! Make sure to shut the hose off! Don't leave the water on...

My children asked me to officiate a race in which they ran across the yard (and back) while simultaneously hula-hooping -- but when I announ...

Our boss discovered a treasure trove of old photos in the English office; they were from 1999 and they were comprehensive in content: shots ...

When my wife and I taught in Syria, we occasionally found it easier to claim we hailed from Canada, rather than the United States, especiall...

My kids love to play twenty questions, despite the fact that they are rather poor at it, and whenever we play -- especially if they are doin...

I'm walking to New Brunswick, and I hear one of those snippets of conversation that I desperately want to hear more of . . . a fifty yea...

I coached my first Highland Park J.V. soccer game of the season last Wednesday, and it was unseasonably hot and humid and, unfortunately, we...

While the themes of this blog are often tangential and desultory, there is one thing that I always get right: the difference between "...

No sport is more abstract than soccer, and at the high school level there seems to be a preponderance of English teachers coaching it (a...

Geoffrey Canada's memoir and call to action Fist Stick Knife Gun is a vivid and intelligent account of life on the streets in the So...

According to game theorists, the most efficient way to play "chicken" is to ostentatiously throw your steering wheel out th...