Magic? How About Unremarkable

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The nice lady who makes the end-of-the-day school announcements on the intercom keeps encouraging us to have a "magical afternoon"...
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If We're Going to Learn One Thing, It's That Soup Sucks

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First day of school: I went over some rules, described some courses, tossed around some metaphors, killed some wasps, and connected with som...
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These Metaphors Are Like School in the Summertime . . .

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At the beginning of the school year, because educating the youth is such an ambitious, abstract, indeterminate, and unpredictable journey, e...
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Last Day of Summer Synopsis

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Although my randomly assigned partner Kit and I did not win yesterday's Fords Park 8 AM pickleball tournament (we advanced to the playof...
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So Many Steps, So Many Trains

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An epic last day of summer, which I will recount on district time tomorrow when I write a detailed synopsis instead of paying attention to t...

I Was Impressed With my Wife's Acumen . . . For a Moment

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I was impressed the other day by my wife's theory about the ending of The Sinner  (Season1) until we started watching Season 2 . . . in ...

A Great Day at the Gym

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We went out in New Brunswick last night, to Clydz and Efes, and I probably (certainly?) drank a little bit too much . . . and then I stayed ...
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A Reason for Short People

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My wife and I lucked out the other night at the Waxahatchee show at the Beacon Theater-- our seats were in the second row of the balcony and...
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Hot Town, Summer in the City

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My wife and I went into "town" yesterday, which is how Tom Buchanan refers to New York City in The Great Gatsby , and both the hot...
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The (Appliance) Doctor is Appalled

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The hinge on our oven door has been broken for quite a while now-- how long? . . . I'm not really sure-- but it's been getting worse...
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Insane in the Mundane

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A new episode of We Defy Augury  in which I explore thoughts (loosely) inspired by Halle Butler's novel  Banal Nightmare   and I also a...
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I'll Be Watching This One Alone

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So the British mockumentary series  Cunk on Earth-- in which Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) bumbles her way through human history with deadpa...

I Can Feel It Coming Back Again

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Today, for the first time all summer, I can feel it, in the offing . . . SCHOOL . . . it's looming out there in the dim mists of next we...

Three Mysteries (Two Solved, One Pending)

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This won't be my most lucid sentence-writing, and you will learn why soon enough-- but I was involved with three mysteries today (so far...
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Rollerblader's Paradise

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As I roll through the piping hot valley of death, I keep turning in circles, making left after left-- but I can't lead a normal life, I ...
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The Dogs of Doom Are Howling "No Quarters!"

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Normally, I always try to walk into New Brunswick because parking is such a pain-in-the-ass, but yesterday I had to drive because I was drop...

Horowitz and meta-Horowitz Do It Again

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I am a sucker for British mystery novels and a sucker for meta-fictional humor and in The Sentence of Death , Anthony Horowitz once again pr...
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I Would Have Used the Word "mundane" (for obvious reasons)

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You're going to feel one way or the other about Halle Butler's novel Banal Nightmare   . . . the millennials that wander about this ...

Newer Delhi, Just Off the Turnpike

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Today my wife and I did NOT travel to the above Hindu temple in New Delhi . . . instead, we did the next best thing and drove to Robbinsvill...
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Future Tense Water Feature Freak Out

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Friday afternoon Terry was nice enough to host a small get-together of English teachers-- his wife and kids went to visit the grandparents i...
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