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Many Americans Are Walking on a Tightrope

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  Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope Hardcover  is a tough read; Pulitzer Prize-winning husband-wife-super-journalist team Nicholas D. K...

Pandemic Planet (Fitness) Gets a Thumbs Down from Dave

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I just took an early morning trip to Planet Fitness-- my first visit to the gym since early March-- and it wasn't much fun . . . working...
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Dave Builds a Standing Desk

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I built a standing desk in my post-apocalyptic hybrid classroom but I didn't really think about how it looked from an outside perspectiv...
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My Son Needs Barbarian Therapy

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My son Alex said the strangest thing yesterday: "I wish I were a little worse at ping-pong so I could have more fun playing with my fr...
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Yup . . . Had to Happen

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When the aliens sift through the wreckage of our civilization and find my son Ian's battery-powered skateboard, this will be their analy...
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Has Anyone Seen the Old iPad Charger?

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When the aliens sift through the wreckage of our civilization, they will certainly be impressed (and bewildered) by our vast variety of elec...

Pandemic School: Lesson #1

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  At school yesterday, I got quite close to this fox that was hanging out on the softball field . . . then someone informed me that maybe I ...

Two Teachers; One Household

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One of the teachers in our household was complimented doubly today-- the district tech team saw this person's virtual teaching set-up an...

It Took a Global Pandemic . . .

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There's a new hashtag of ideas that begin "it took a global pandemic" and I've collected a few of them here . . . thanks t...

Two Reasons Why I Will Never Get a Vasectomy

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I will never get a vasectomy. My rationale is based on two very solid reasons. They’re not the two reasons you are thinking, although I do v...

Horror Recommendations for Both the Patient and the Restive

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If you're looking for a gothic novel in the vein of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Henry James' "The ...

Hybrid School: The First Week

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Here a few thoughts about teaching my first week of hybrid-model school: 1) hybrid doesn't work very well . . . you can either pay atten...
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Dreams Are Dumb?

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I've always been a proponent of the Anti-Freudian "dreams are dumb and indicate nothing" school-of-thought (and may COVID-19 k...
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Trump = Toxins = No One Cares

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The El Presidente Trump Train-wreck throws up such a cloud of dust that important things just slip under the radar . . . lest we forget, the...

Some Impressions of Reopening School During a Pandemic

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 I'm sure things will shape up, but some of the first impressions of school reopening during a pandemic: 1) the filthy carpet in my room...
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Pandemic Education = Dave in the Corner (with the creepy handprints)

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  Normally during the preparatory days before school, I organize my room, throw up a few posters, and brace myself for a room that will soon...

Your Worst Nightmare (in the form of a song)

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Nothing is worse than knowing people have been talking behind your back . . . aside, perhaps, from actually hearing what they said . . . her...

Dave Preens His Beak

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I just tweezed that one weird hair that grows on my nose-- not in my nose, on  my nose-- so I am officially ready to go back to work (first ...

Teach Your Teenager to Think Poker

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This spring, during the COVID lockdown, I started playing poker. Low stakes Texas Hold’em. I wanted to keep my mind active, and I was sick o...

Running to the Border (Without the Runs)

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Last night my son Alex took over the cooking duties-- and while it's hard to watch . . . he's lefty, he doesn't know how to safe...
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