Sentence of Dave

While I generally do not partake in costume-wearing at work, I didn't want a repeat of this epic failure  and so when Liz K. told me to ...

I'm getting older, and I like to play sports, so the question is: should I start ingesting creatine?

This morning, while playing basketball, I took an elbow under the right side of my ribcage (from a "kid" I taught in 1996) and I t...

Today, I scanned a full cart of groceries through the "self-checkout" register at Stop & Shop, and I only needed help from a h...

Four social events in one weekend, which is not my style, especially after. along week of school and parent/teacher conferences . . . too ma...

Our dog Lola survived her bladder stone surgery and hopefully, this will solve her urinary tract issues, but she's rather despondent now...

  New episode of We Defy Augury-- " The Horror? The Horror!" . . . this one contains thoughts (loosely) inspired by three Paul T...

It's the second day of parent/teacher conferences and I'm sitting here waiting for some parents to arrive and my room is hot and I...

My nose is dry, my lips are cracked, and this long streak of unseasonably dry, hot weather has made me realize that New Mexico might be a ni...

Last week, while I was driving to work, I saw a dead deer on the side of the road and that deer carcass projected the message that life is s...

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...