Sentence of Dave

During my many years on the road, I have noticed that Subaru wagons tend to sport bumper stickers . . . and the older the wagon, the more li...

My senior college writing classes chipped in and surprised me with a "condolences" edible arrangement today-- a very sweet gesture...

Yesterday's copious and unseasonable sunshine caused a classroom disaster-- we're doing great American art forms and genres in Grade...

I'm still a little groggy today, due to Daylight Savings Time-- and so I can't figure out this conundrum: if Trump dismantles the De...

Rough Monday morning: our dog heard a smoke detector chirping in the kitchen at 4 AM-- the battery had run out and it was making that little...

Great show at the Stress Factory last night-- as always-- and we had no clue what to expect from the comics because Stacey unloaded the tick...

 Wind makes temperature irrelevant.

First time I played morning hoops twice in one week in a few months-- and, strangely, though my legs were tired, my knee felt fine-- it stil...

Things I have been enjoying lately: 1) pianist McCoy Tyner's exotic sounding jazz albums, especially Extensions  and Sahara; 2)   saxoph...

Today in Grade 10 Honors English class, I charged my students to make the best possible argument for the "most American art form"-...

  Today at morning basketball we were lamenting the absence of Jeff, due to a groin pull, and I broke into a bit of Sam Malone's "g...

It is Monday, it's butt-ass cold, the double birthday weekend is over, Donald Trump is aligning himself with Vladimir Putin's vision...

Me and the Seuss, we share birthday fun-- If the doc were alive, he'd be one-twenty-one! I'm not quite that old, but D. Boon would b...

We had a lovely pre-birthday celebration for Alex (and myself) last night-- we all went to Shanghai Dumpling and stuffed ourselves on noodle...

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...