Sentence of Dave

Every year at the end of October, there is a hellish week of school that combines two things that do not belong together: parent confere...

Once upon a time, there were opium wars. And reefer madness. The hippies and Timothy Leary did LSD. The disco folks snorted coke, and Marion...

There's an economic success story that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want to acknowledge: low wage workers have doubled thei...

This morning-- as a result of telling a co-worker that she was dressed like a real-estate agent-- I was forced to defend my fashion sense. I...

Last night, at Frankie Feds -- a thin crust pizza joint in Freehold that you should visit-- my son Alex said something inadvertently resonan...

Nothing gets me more excited than feral hogs. So when one of my favorite podcasts, Reply All , dedicated an entire episode to this subject, ...

As a teacher, sometimes it's good to plan ahead-- make a syllabus and stick to it, give your students a schedule and some order in their...

Here are a few things great things I'd like to commemorate for time immemorial . . . or as long as the internet lasts: 1) My older son A...

My wife moves fast and gets things done. A downside of this is that she sometimes misplaces her stuff.  The very first blog post I wrote on ...

The New York Times podcast The Daily recently aired an episode about Rudy Giulani's involvement with the Trump administration .  At the ...

We have off this Wednesday for Yom Kippur, and since I'm not Jewish, I don't have to worry about fasting and atonement. It's jus...

The new episode of "Making Sense," a conversation between Sam Harris and Andrew McAfee, is generally positive and inspirational (...

I walk our dog every morning at 6 AM. It's pitch black. I take her down to the park because the lights by the tennis court are always on...

As far as coaching goes, I have a pretty sweet deal. I now coach my hometown JV team. The field is two hundred yards from my house (sometime...

This had better be the end of summer (not that threatening the Weather Gods has ever been successful or mentally healthy). I really tried to...

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 ...