Sentence of Dave

I never galvanized the adults in my community to form PAH!  (Parents Against Halloween!) and now we're all paying for it, stuck at home ...

The head of my department recently progressed from looking a little pregnant to looking very pregnant, and she's getting the usual curio...

Like the sands of the hourglass, so are the Sentences by Dave . . . and if you visit here daily, then you know to expect run-ons, awkwardnes...

President Obama recently spoke out against the amount of "unnecessary" standardized testing in public schools, and proposed a cap ...

Let's go . . . meh.

My friend Connell brought a special guest to the pub Thursday night-- a geo-political science professor on sabbatical from Israel for a year...

This is my favorite episode of our podcast so far-- it's a festive mix of knowledge, judgment, ignorance, humor, tantrums, epistemology...

Yesterday morning, I tried on two different jackets and BOTH of the zippers were broken . . . but my wife tells me there is some seamstress ...

Dear Jonathan Franzen, Regarding your new big book, Purity . . .  not only was I NOT fooled by your clever ruse , but I'm also NOT foo...

My son Alex checked out the Monster Manual , The Player's Handbook , and The Dungeon Master's Guide from the library this weekend, ...

Once again, I've found a beer that tastes really good ( Sixpoint Sensi Harvest ) and once again, I neither have the discriminating pala...

I found Jonathan Franzen's 2010 novel  Freedom  bloated and disagreeable (but I still enjoyed his hyper-realistic style) and I am feel...

In this episode of The Test  you'll find out what information you would need to impress Stacey on a hypothetical first date-- it's a...

I do a lesson with my Composition class on removing the "clutter" from their writing-- I like to teach the lesson just after a st...

As a high school teacher, I'm privy to the exciting social lives of teenagers . . . here's a snippet of conversation I overheard bet...

Don't be fooled, even if your kid is watching something educational-- like a documentary about philately-- you still have to worry, as n...

It was yesterday morning, 6 AM, dark and chilly, and I was walking the dog . . . but I was in the home stretch, nearing my driveway-- the do...

This episode of The Test is probably as close to educational as we'll ever come . . . we all performed so well that we didn't even ...

There is nothing quite like the mania to which my children and their gang of friends succumb during our town's "Garage Sale Day...

There's a mathematical paradox in The Fabulous Thunderbird's song "Tuff Enuff" . . . if you work "twenty-four hou...