Contingency Waist Plan

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 If I acquire a big beer belly, I'm wearing my friend Cunningham's pregnancy jeans!
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Comparing Apples and Fungi

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Which was scarier: watching last night's Rutgers basketball game or the new "spooky mall" episode of The Last of Us?
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Here It Comes . . . The Long Haul

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This is it: the long haul of school that precedes Spring Break-- five-day week after five-day week, tedium and repetition and no breaks in s...

That's a Lot of Words . . .

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I ran my new episode of We Defy Augury   through an online transcript generator (Otter.ai) because I wanted to edit it and make it a blog po...

Sometimes High School Kids Teach You Shit You Didn't Know

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Today I learned three things from my students: 1) Chronophoto is an awesome online game; 2) InspiroBot is more fun than ChatGPT; 3) a girl...

Sometimes High School Kids Are Actually Charming and Entertaining

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This morning the students in my first period Public Speaking class crushed their Demonstrations speeches-- I always get nervous before we do...

Holy Mother of Peanut Butter and Chocolate Miracle!

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The College Writing Crew was embroiled in another meeting about the state of the Rutgers Expository Writing Course . . .  which will now b...
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Satisfying Slime?

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  One of the benefits of teaching high school is that it helps me keep up with what the young people are into; yesterday in Public Speaking ...

A Couple of Crucial Creative Concepts

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  Episode 30 of We Defy Augury reviews a couple of critically crucial creative concepts to help you captivate, compel, and command the crow...

Hail to the Chief!

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A perfect President's Day-- it was 60 degrees and sunny in February, so Catherine and I played some pickle-ball-- the whole crew was out...

White Lotus Season Three?

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If you've finished both seasons of White Lotus and you need a lampooning-the-uber-rich fix, then you might enjoy Triangle of Sadness . ....

Impressive Nap

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I had a long, fun, and busy Friday into Saturday -- I played early morning basketball at 6:30 AM and got a very good run in, as I was part o...

College Writing is a Changin'

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Yesterday the current EBHS Rutgers Expository Writing team (so Stacey, Cunningham, Soder, Brady, and me) and my boss took a meeting with two...
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Miracle at the Wawa

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Yet another sentence set at the  Wawa -- and NOT at the Starbucks, I might add . . . there are ZERO sentences on this blog set at Starbucks ...
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Nothing Romantic

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Catherine, Ian, and I had a fun (but not very romantic) Valentine's Day-- we watched episode five of The Last of Us , which was gripping...

William Carlos Williams vs. Wallace Stevens: Adjective Smackdown!

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 New episode of We Defy Augury  up and it's a good one-- as close to being in my Creative Writing class as it gets . . . "William ...

Nice Work, Kids

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It's official-- both my kids can properly shoot a basketball (and they learned to do it sooner than I did . . . I think it took me until...

Why Roger Goodell . . . Why?

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It's Sunday night, I'm wiped out and want to pack it in and get ready for school tomorrow, but we're off to a SuperBowl party-- ...
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Things I Learned Recently (For the Next Time)

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I've now hit the age where I can have three alcoholic drinks and feel okay the next morning, but if I have four alcoholic drinks then I&...

Game, Set, Dave is Old

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When my son Ian was a sophomore I could still occasionally win a set when I played him in tennis; last year, his junior season, I could stil...
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