Sentence of Dave

Buckle up: the birthday weekend begins-- Alex turns 21 tomorrow and I turn 55 on Sunday . . . so I put on a pot of coffee.

Earlier this week in my Creative Writing class we did an exercise where we voted on a topic and then everyone-- either alone or collaborativ...

This week is folding back on itself-- today I had Tuesday energy (the least amount) while my seniors had effusive Thursday chattiness and ve...

If there's one idea I could pass along to the young people, to the next generation of humanity-- one piece of wisdom, one profound final...

This photo popped up on Facebook and I'm pretty sure my wife and I were enjoying a "hump day drink and hookah" on our friend...

Apparently, the one unique word that I coined-- tupperawareness -- really has legs . . . my friend and colleague Matt said his  friends have...

I think for future generations-- so they understand what is happening around here-- I should describe just how much pickleball is being play...

The way to teach "The Modern Moloch" -- a phenomenal episode of 99% Invisible about the mostly unknown story of how automobile lob...

I can't think as fast as Busta Rhymes raps in the Chris Brown song "Look at Me," but apparently that's not the fastest rap...

I've been doing some heavy reading lately--I read an extremely challenging historical literary mystery by Matthew Pearl,  The Dante Club...

My wife and I did NOT buy a mattress on our day off today, but we did go to the gym (though my wife and I were both very sore from working o...

I really hustled today at indoor soccer-- and it paid off, I scored a goal and had a huge assist to keep our team on the floor-- but I am re...

  In Naples, Florida in February, the weather is sunny, dry, and warm, and sitting around the pool is lovely . . . except when it isn't ...

I am back in Jersey-- flew in last night and I went to work today-- it was nice to return to normalcy and high school kids-- but my knee and...

My dad passed away last night, down here in Naples, Florida-- a place he loved-- and he will be missed, by his friends, family, wife, and co...

Not much news here-- my dad is now comfortably unresponsive in the hospice center across the street from the hospital and slowly giving up t...

I talked to my dad on the phone last night during the Super Bowl and he was totally coherent, though he had recently fallen and hit his head...

Yesterday was the first Saturday in a while that my wife and I were both healthy, so we took the train to Princeton (with Connell . . . it w...

While it's impossible to truly delve into the mind of a dog, we can always speculate-- and it's been a long cold winter, so I've...

My school almost had a snow day today, but instead we got a slush delay.