Sentence of Dave

Yesterday afternoon, the EB English Department held our 9th Annual Scary Story Contest. Thanks to the Soders for hosting! They had a stand-u...

If you need a cure for the pandemic/election blues, put the new Tom Petty reissue Wildflowers & All the Rest  on shuffle and let the fif...

This week has been a black hole of endless parent-teacher phone conferences, college recommendations, online training, tech support-- my dev...

  The migrant caravan disappeared, but the coronavirus didn't (although, to the chagrin of the Democrats, neither did QAnon . . . and it...

  Big news if you like to rollerblade and you live in Highland Park: they paved South Adelaide . . . I live on Valentine, which was paved a ...

Some items I'd like to note for posterity about our home JV soccer game against South Plainfield on Wednesday: 1) we started the game wi...

  In terms of perceiving color, I am blue-green deficient, but in terms of perceiving detail I am simply defective . . . I bought a bunch of...

New Jersey has finally reached coronavirus nirvana: we now meet the criteria for our own travel ban (10 cases per 100,00) and all New Jerse...

Some of you may have noticed that I'm back to single-sentence format over here-- and I'm struggling to even produce a measly sentenc...

Those of you who are appalled by Donald Trump's downplaying of his COVID case and treatment, those of you who are thinking:  How could h...

Last night, after a long week of virtual/hybrid school and soccer, we watched Train to Busan , a South Korean zombie flick that combines the...

During the pandemic, we're considering every game we play a win-- but today's trip to Middlesex was a tough one . . . it was the thi...

While reading Agatha Christie's first published novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, I was in the same boat as Hercule Poirot's r...

VIRTUAL SCHOOL: REGULAR SCHOOL  1) online shopping: the mall; 2) watching porn: sex; 3) YouTube: the movies; 4) watching Jaws: shark attack.

I know it's gauche to root for someone to kick the bucket-- even our crass and incompetent President-- so I'm wishing him a speedy r...

It goes without saying that my hopes and prayers are with President Trump . . . I wish him a speedy recovery from COVID-19 so he can return ...

  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...