Sentence of Dave

Someday this week will end and I will go to the beach and meet up with some old friends (and avoid having to help my wife with HP Garage Sal...

Post-pandemic-mask-wearing teacher Dave really appreciates past Dave, who recorded various stories and anecdotes during the virtual instruc...

Long day: extended homeroom, activity fair, away game, bus ride to Spotswood . . . but it turned out to be worth it-- though we were down fi...

I was covering a class this morning-- an 84-minute class-- and I was bored and checking my phone and at 8:30 AM I got a notification from my...

I definitely overserved myself yesterday while watching the Rutgers game in New Brunswick (and post-game at Clydz) but despite the brain fog...

I listen to Sam Harris and find him smart and logical . . . and I also listen to (some) Joe Rogan podcasts, and he seems to have a pretty lo...

Yesterday, we attempted to play an off day JV game (so that we could take a couple of younger varsity players-- we're low on numbers) bu...

If you're like me (or Linda from Bob's Burgers) you might occasionally sing original songs about whatever the hell is going on rig...

The Hidden Brain episode "Group Think"  explains why Canadians like honey and maple syrup equally . . . UNLESS they are reminded t...

Tuesday is obviously the worst day of the week-- it has none of the earnest go-getter initiative of Monday, none of the hump-day inspiration...

Last night at a birthday party, while we were discussing life, death, birth etcetera, my friend Alec and I figured out what to say when you ...

If you're looking for some sensitive and thoughtful fiction, you're probably not going to like Lee Child's first Jack Reacher no...

My son Alex had a rough afternoon on the pitch today-- it was hot and we were playing a very tough South River team on their insane grass fi...

This picture of my high school's "terminal" hallway says it all about "hygiene theater"-- today at cafeteria duty, t...

School is absurd right now-- we wear masks in class, but then we go to the cafeteria and 500-plus kids eat together without masks (and I sup...

My older son Alex-- a senior in high school-- had a good day on Friday; he learned he was starting at left-back in the soccer game on Saturd...

According to North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, there's no such thing as a starving artist-- if you're foraging for grasshoppers and...

James Shapiro's book Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future  is far more fun and compelling ...

Teenage boys are often the worst about basic common sense and safety-- for example, they leave the burners on in the kitchen and go elsewher...

According to this article in Slate,  morning people (larks) had a much better chance of seeing that black and blue dress that took the inter...