Sentence of Dave

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

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...

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...

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...

When the aliens sift through the wreckage of our civilization and find my son Ian's battery-powered skateboard, this will be their analy...

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

  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 ...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

I've always been a proponent of the Anti-Freudian "dreams are dumb and indicate nothing" school-of-thought (and may COVID-19 k...

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...

 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...

  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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...