Sentence of Dave

Fourth period today, I was far afield, covering an honors physics class in J Hall; the class was full of 11th graders and I teach mainly sen...

We celebrated my grandmother's 96th birthday today (we celebrated a bit early-- her actual birthday is Tuesday but she's looking goo...

I was a little foggy this morning because Catherine and I attended a raucous dance party last night, so I was especially happy when my trave...

If there's one thing that you can be certain of around here, it's that I despise Scott Pruitt  and the new episode of Embedded  has ...

Lots of farm stuff going on now in Congress-- The Indicator  covers the labor drought . . . this is probably my favorite thing that Trump ha...

Take a look at the picture above and see if you can find the bag of Kirkland brand ground coffee . . . and now imagine that you are me: ...

I had a salad for lunch today, but it was more exciting than usual because while I was ingesting aforementioned greens, my colleagues inform...

We just finished watching Breaking Bad as a family and then we hyper-jumped right into Battlestar Galactica . . . these are two of m...

This week on The Test ,  I barrage the ladies with a battery of questions and assault them with a slew of incendiary statistics and they s...

Sentence of Dave (affectionately known as SoD) would like to take a moment on this lovely spring Saturday to applaud that lowly chunk of di...

This afternoon I attended my first English department book club and it was all that I imagined and more; I got to share my literary opinions...

I've been chewing and chomping on Chomsky lately, and while his writings are spicy and might give you mental indigestion, they are also ...

I'd like to note for posterity that I've been fairly heroic on the homefront the past couple of days: today I planted my second  app...

Noam Chomsky thinks our attitude about tax day is analogous to our attitude about our democracy; if we had a democracy that was in any way r...

I forgot to put up yesterday's post, which details all the tools I used to plant an apple tree in my front yard (I had to remove a weepi...

I used five different tools for my gardening projects this weekend-- five!-- I wanted to remove an anemic weeping cherry tree from the groun...

This week on The Test , Stacey begins with some crystal clear instructions on how to play her name-game- mash-up, but Cunningham and I do...

Is there anyone who still thinks working five days in a row is a good idea?

At our school, we have a number of chromebook carts-- they are incredibly cumbersome and heavy computer carts that house and charge 30 chrom...

The literary term "juxtaposition" is a favorite of sophomores the world over, mainly because it applies to nearly any two thin...