Sentence of Dave

At the end of the narrative essay "Once More to the Lake," E. B White recognizes that the nostalgic feelings he has for his old ...

My son Ian was perusing the book 1001 Paintings You must See Before You Die  and he stumbled upon Courbet's infamous work innocuously e...

Last week, while I was working out at the North Brunswick LA Fitness, I caught a glimpse of an attractive and curvy blonde girl walking thr...

A friend and colleague of mine explained that she was stressed out because her cat had undergone a $1300 operation to clear mineral deposits...

Jon Mooallem's book Wild Ones tells the story of the nearly extinct Lange's Metalmark butterfly, and it also tells the meta-story...

A discussion in my Creative Writing class -- which consists of sophomores, juniors, and seniors-- revealed that the current crop of high sch...

I have been accused of having no discernment in my ratings of books -- everything I tend to review has completely captivated me, and thus I ...

Though I was pleased (and also rather shocked) that my son Ian brought home a certificate from the principal inducting him to the "Char...

My son Alex, who is in 4th grade, recently finished reading The Hobbit , and he's now deep into the first book of Lord of the Rings tril...

Though I'm not particularly in tune with the world of the hearing impaired , I would like to make a humble suggestion which I think woul...

For those of you who haven't been taking notes, here are summaries of my two children: Ian is vengeful , competitive , and artistic ; Al...

My son Ian's wash pencil drawing of a humpback whale is surreal and almost beautiful, if it wasn't for the glowing red eye.

The closest thing to hitting the lottery during a day of teaching high school is when your prep period gets extended for some unforeseen rea...

One of the wonderful things about teaching is that you get to expand and develop ideas that you barely fleshed out the year before . . . unl...

I am watching the first season of  24 on Netflix -- but in order to fit this into my busy fall schedule, I've been staying up a little l...

If you watched  Trading Places  when you were a kid, you probably didn't understand what happens on the trading floor at the end of th...

Yikes . . . Justin Fox's book The Myth of the Rational Market, which bills itself as a "history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wa...

I took a day off last week, in order to get a few things done, and one of those things I needed to get done was the pickling and preserving ...

Someone smart and well-read could develop this idea into a full-fledged essay, but I don't have the time or the mental stamina for that,...

Soccer . . . soccer soccer soccer soccer soccer . . . soccer . . . soccer soccer . . . soccer . . . sometimes when you say a word too many t...