Sentence of Dave

After a fun night out in New Brunswick (and an ill-advised late night snack stop at Giovanelli's-- Whitney declared that would be the...

Today was the first crisp fall day of the season and the squirrels were just brazen-- the acorns have fallen from the oak trees on our stree...

I just completed the first five day week of the school year . . . brutal, just brutal, but listening to the smooth sounds of Jungle's ne...

I'm exhausted from writing various emails about violations of my school district's homework policy, in the hopes of getting an extre...

I hereby vow to sacrifice these very words and this very sentence to the irate, pus-filled, and vengeful Goddess of Canker Sore, in the hope...

My take on Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's new book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting...

I'm out of words . . . yesterday I wrote a six paragraph email to my son's Honors English teacher about the amount of homework he ha...

A weird Sunday . . . my mind felt foggy and possessed all day, perhaps because I was in the thrall of that dirty old Jersey devil . . . or p...

The new episode of Freakonomics (How to Stop Being a Loser)  is another reminder that the NFL-- the world's most lucrative sports league...

During a recording session, Cunningham, Stacey and I all proudly virtue signaled the fact that we don't eat veal . . . but perhaps this ...

Dear Readers, I'd like to give my highest recommendation for Julie Schumacher's novel Dear Committee Members (and while I know tha...

While the Jewish folks in Jersey atone for a year's worth of sin the rest of us Gentiles enjoy sleeping in . . . except for me, I just...

We were practicing showing and not telling in Creative Writing this morning, and I like to practice what I preach, so here goes: we'...

I completed my first soccer-triathlon of the fall season yesterday: I played soccer, watched soccer, and coached soccer . . . I played pick-...

Sadly, Burt Reynolds has taken his last wild ambulance ride and finally joined his buddy Dom DeLuise at the Great Cannonball Run in the S...

Charlie Sykes tweeted this image with the caption: Kind of amazed this pr campaign wasn’t enough to save Alex Jones on Twitter a...

This is hot off the press: so fifty-four minutes ago . . . at the end of middle school soccer practice, my son Ian and some of his friends d...

In  Jeff Vandermeer's second book in the Southern Reach Trilogy, Authority , it feels as if the British version of The Office has  ...

School has truly begun and my brain is taxed . . . I'm teaching four different classes this year (or preps, as we teachers like to call ...

This week on our podcast  The Test , Stacey quizzes us on various and significant walls and we perform admirably (aside from when Cunningham...