Sentence of Dave

The other day, a couple of guidance counselors came down to my classroom and explained the ins and outs of applying to college. Once they we...

Going to The Stress Factory in New Brunswick is always fascinating, especially when there are several opening acts. We went this Friday with...

When you utilize our basement shower, not only do you get to avoid the queue for the upstairs shower-- and we only have one shower upstairs,...

Ruth Ware's new thriller  The Turn of the Key certainly evokes the mood and themes of the classic Henry James novel  The Turn of the Sc...

Last Thursday, I went to the pub after Back to School Night. It was a long day, and I was a bit wound up (although that is no excuse for my ...

There's no question that when you're hard at work, it's always exciting to a get an unexpected text from your lovely wife, espec...

I normally don't mind Mondays-- my existential woes usually come to a head on Tuesdays-- but this morning I felt Garfield's curse...

Congratulations are in order because I've survived the longest week of the school year: a full five days of coaching and teaching (right...

It's impossible to be in a good mood when you know that 12 hours after you show up to school, you're going to do it all again: run t...

Heraclitus warned us that "the only constant is change." For many years, the American school system eluded this inevitability, but...

Do you respect wood? I respect wood, but-- luckily-- so does my wife, so I won't have to divorce her.  In fact, it's my wife who sug...

It's over. We cleaned out, set up, and raked it in. All day Saturday and half of Sunday, my wife channeled the soul of an Ottoman bazaar...

I often see people running on concrete and I want to yell to them: "Don't run on concrete! It's much harder than asphalt!"...

Head down Woodbridge Avenue to the Edison Tex-Mex Deli and get the al pastor tacos-- I promise you won't be disappointed: the pork and ...

Someone (or something) has hacked my Blogger account and so Sentence of Dave   keeps doing weird stuff, which is as good a reason as any to ...

There's something weird going on with my Blogger account, so I'm closing up shop at Sentence of Dave and posting all my sentences, ...

Freedom! Yesterday, with the help of my wife-- who claims she is an expert in Velcro-- we installed a magnetic screen door behind our slidin...

Freedom! Yesterday, with the help of my wife-- who claims she is an expert in Velcro-- we installed a magnetic screen door behind our ...

Blogger has been acting weird since Friday, and so I wasn't able to post yesterday or this morning . . . here's what went on: Soc...

Blogger has been acting weird since Friday, and so I wasn't able to post yesterday or this morning . . . here's what went on: 1) ...