Sentence of Dave

Although I'm only running a low fever and don't have much congestion, I've had a really obnoxious headache for the past two days...

COVID finally caught up with me (and hopefully it will be a mild case, as I am a big fat cranky baby when I'm sick).

  Note the quotations around the word "OFFENSE" and please contemplate the following questions:  1) is sarcasm a welcome addition ...

We had friends over for dinner Saturday night and while we were enjoying wine and appetizers, our ceiling fan started behaving abominably-- ...

Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I were driving back from lunch at the Ugly Dumpling-- we were off from school for Yom Kippur-- and I made a...

  A new episode of We Defy Augury  is up and streaming: "Powerful Eyes are Watching You, Sheeple" is (loosely) based on Colin Dic...

It's still raining and I ate too many cookies and the Jets game is as bad as the weather and I need to replace a dangerously wobbly ceil...

I thought Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" was the song I hated the most, but last night at Bin, Batch, and Barrel I had to endure &qu...

Congratulations are in order, as my wife just got another prestigious job offer-- to be a superlative teacher coach for a nonprofit foundati...

I'm trying to finish up the new episode of my podcast-- which is about Colin Dickey's book Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secre...

  If you get picked up by this Galaxy ambulance-- which resembles my own dilapidated minivan but represents a company whose motto is "M...

In College Writing class, the new opening activity-- created by Rutgers-- prompts students to examine themselves as readers and writers, aca...

I walked my dog down to the park this morning, in the pouring rain, and then I let her loose to do her business . . . we do this walk every ...

I'm not particularly religious, but my brother got married last night and Ian didn't text us his whereabouts until 4 AM-- although h...

I played some singles pickleball today with a young man named Ryan Cheng -- who played Division I tennis for Yale-- and while I didn't s...

By Tuesday evening of this week, I was already totally overwhelmed-- I got up early both Monday and Tuesday morning to work on a new episode...

At school on Tuesday, I noticed that although my portable A/C unit was running and though it was kicking out some cool air, my room was stil...

Counterweight  is the first book by anonymous Korean author Djuma translated into English-- I won't bother trying to explain the plot, b...

I was walking with Stacey and she needed to stop at the vice-principal's office to turn in a packet of papers-- and it turned out I need...

Today was the first full day of school-- we had half days last week because of the oppressive heat-- and it was the first day I had to navig...