Sentence of Dave

The one benefit of my enforced COVID sick leave was that I stayed up to watch both the Jets and the Giants play night games-- the Jets lost ...

I had to stay home from work today-- district policy-- but I feel completely better and I have chores to do-- I've already mowed the law...

I pretty much feel better today-- no fever or headache-- but the nurse says that, per district policy, I still have to stay home from work (...

While I'm obviously happy that I'm not on a respirator (or suffering much congestion) I am still very annoyed by COVID . . . I'm...

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 ...

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...