Sentence of Dave

Pittsburgh to Chicago is a long and boring haul through Ohio and Indiana, but luckily my son Alex lost his mind at the latter end of the rid...

In order to keep my fans from migrating to my competitor's blog , I am going to summarize our second day in Pittsburgh in as few words a...

I'm going to stretch the boundaries of the sentence for these posts (mainly because I'm competing against another, ersatz blog being...

During the USA/Portugal match, all the kids watching the game were sitting on the floor of my living room, and my son Ian didn't jump up...

In Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush,  Geoff Dyer summarizes writer Karl Marlantes theory: "in the Second ...

I assumed that the very high temperatures on my Ducane grill thermometer were like the zone beyond the 85 mph mark on my mini-van's spee...

I am posting my cross country trip itinerary here so I don't get any statements like this after the trip . . . you should have told me...

A lot of the supernatural -- werewolves and mermaids and vampires-- and the most fantastic religious miracles -- Jesus walking on water a...

If you're a diligent reader of this blog, you may have noticed that I haven't been reviewing many books lately, and that's beca...

I warn my composition students not to take to much lined paper at the start of the exam, because the only fun thing that you can do during t...

On Wednesday morning, I tried to telepathically call my dog to my bedside, but he didn't come; though this would have been a neat trick,...

I am reading Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State  and while the revelation...

I'd be fired for this, I suppose, but the other day, when I was showing my senior class the climax of  The Matrix, there was a lock-dril...

While my favorite Black Knight is the heavily armored dude in The Holy Grail who loses his arm and claims "it's just a flesh wo...

This sentence is to celebrate the longest run of beautiful weather in the history of central New Jersey (and I apologize for a weak literary...

My students had to present philosophical metaphors last week and a very smart girl explained that her take on life is like driving -- she sa...

My son Ian begs us to play RISK , which is a major commitment, and then when we finally agree to play, he's usually miserable . . . o...

A student of mine relayed an incident from her brother's dorm in college which I found radically inventive, but apparently, "to hoc...

Yesterday a student played a video narrated by Eric Thomas, an ex-professional football player who is now a motivational speaker, and -- s...

I'll never be a great man (for many reasons) but mainly because I need too much sleep (case in point: last week there was a half day for...