Sentence of Dave

Last week, in my senior English classes, we read the last page of Joan Didion's masterpiece about the counterculture in San Francisco in...

I recently heard the phrase "row forward looking back" as a metaphorical attitude for heading into the unknown-- and that's ho...

The largest banana port in the United States is in Wilmington, Delaware and once they arrive there, the bananas are loaded into gigantic ri...

I was glad to see the back of our old ironing board-- which hung on a hook, folded flat, on the back of our bedroom door-- because whenever ...

Tuesdays are tough-- I dragged myself out of bed for Tuesday AM basketball-- now that our school doesn't allow non-district employees to...

If you want to read a totally fucked up book about a disgraced knight trying to protect a sanctified child in the bleakest of settings-- pla...

I caught up with some old friends this weekend-- the operative word being old-- but we managed to stay up until 1 AM Friday night, regaling ...

I'd like to lose ten pounds (but I don't want to alter my eating habits, alcohol consumption, or exercise routine).

This morning I had to proctor the PSAT for my sophomore honors class-- the test itself, after the usual technological and logistical shitsho...

One of the most satisfying moments of Tuesday morning 6:30 AM basketball-- especially after a miserable shooting performance-- is drinking t...

I must be a little bit French (because I can only cook dinner if I'm drinking wine).

Stuck between a rock and a very boring place tomorrow: do I attend the 7 AM faculty meeting or the 2:50 PM faculty meeting?

Who knew that Mexican jello is far superior-- more rigid, firm, and flavorful-- than American Jell-O?

If you're looking for podcasts about strange stuff happening in small towns (and you've already listened to S-Town  and taken an aud...

A Head Full of Ghosts , by Paul Tremblay, is a genuinely scary (and very transparent) pastiche of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived...

Today in my sophomore honors English class, we are having an "emulate Holden Caulfield's voice but write about something modern...

We finally have off from school for Rosh Hashanah . . . and it's about time.

My son Ian spends plenty of time on his phone, but I'm not really sure he understands its capabilities because he's always asking me...

A rainy miserable Sunday and a rainy miserable Jets game, so my wife and I decided to watch The Menu-  a satirically horrific haute cuisine ...

Despite the wet weather the past few days, I've continued my greenery project: removing dead and unsightly maple and Leyland cypress bra...