Sentence of Dave

Last night, we were at a potluck dinner at our neighbor's house and I asked my wife the location of my cousin Tommy's 60th birthday ...

After yelling at the universe for the thousandth time that the living room lamp that I use for reading was unplugged-- because my son uses t...

Highland Park soccer took a beating today against Middlesex-- they're always brutal on their grass field-- and though Ian played great, ...

My son Ian, who is a senior in high school, has had a rough couple years of high school soccer-- he was an excellent player when he was youn...

You're not going to read Dave Grohl's memoir for the writing quality: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music is kind of cheesy . ....

I've spend an inordinate amount of my life on grassy fields-- playing soccer, coaching soccer, playing golf, hiking, walking the dog, et...

  Today we had off for Rosh Hashanah so my wife and I headed out to Sandy Hook to explore the old army base (Fort Hancock) at the tip of the...

I was at the Annual Grant Avenue Block Party yesterday when Deatz made me an offer I couldn't refuse: a free ticket to the Rutgers/Iowa ...

Successful happy hour at B2 Bistro, a newish place on Farrington Lake near my old stomping grounds-- used to be Sir John's, a place we w...

First of all, I managed to finish another episode of my podcast We Defy Augury  . . . this one is about Steven Johnson's new book and it...

Alex came home from college and ate dinner with us tonight-- which was very exciting-- but the reason was not so exciting: he needed to buy ...

Ian scored his first varsity goal yesterday-- so he's one step closer to his goal of scoring in varsity soccer, varsity basketball-- whi...

I was upstairs reading some Civil War history and I heard some yelling downstairs so I went to check it out and apparently Ian was getting s...

My wife has a habit of slightly altering idioms so that they retain the meaning but contain a synonym or two in place of the typical words i...

Great non-fiction writers can make any topic interesting and Steven Johnson  is one of the great ones, he's done it over and over with v...

 It was such a good week for Ian (until the mooning incident).

I had an Indian curry and a shitload of lentils for lunch and I'm drinking coffee and now I'm wolfing down rice and beans for dinner...

A long week . . . five days of teaching six classes and four preps, plus Back to School Night (and no more videos, we're doing it in per...

New content is canceled today-- Catherine, Ian, and I watching the penultimate episode of Better Call Saul  . . . all the timelines are comi...

I really have to remember to thank my children for providing so much material for my classroom-- it's so much easier to teach teenagers ...