Sentence of Dave

No school for me today because of Eid al-fitr-- my wife had no school as well but she's on a lady's long weekend in Savannah, so I d...

During these troubled times, certain subjects are hard to bring up in social settings because of the controversy and awkwardness these topic...

As usual, with the end of winter comes the annual "it's time to shed a few pounds and get in shape" portion of the year-- my w...

It must have been a long and tiring week throughout our school, because there was a good inter-disciplinary crowd at happy hour this afterno...

Today was metaphor day in Creative Writing-- I reviewed the types of metaphors (simile, personification, etcetera) and I gave them a way to ...

 I'd rather shoot my age than shoot my eye out.

My stomach hurt, and I had a low fever on Sunday night into Monday, but I suffered through the school day and then collapsed on the couch af...

If I were to choose one genre-- and only one-- that I would have to read and watch for the rest of my life, I think it would be science-fict...

Yesterday afternoon, my son Alex and I took the train into the city to have a beer and some food at a sports bar (he just turned 21!) and th...

In a recurring feature that SHOULD recur more often, here are a few things I learned from my high school students recently: 1) chameleons do...

Tonight is the dreaded parent/teacher evening conferences, from 5 PM to 8 PM-- but, luckily my schedule is light (or perhaps not luckily bec...

I filled out my NCAA brackets today and Venmoed various people money, but I did not use the proper emojis-- which my friend Terry showed me-...

We returned from Naples, Florida late last night on Frontier Air-- which is most definitely a seat-of-your-pants budget-type airline . . . b...

If you are a fan of Jackson Lamb and the show Slow Horses , then you need to read Mick Herron's standalone prequel The Secret Hours--  t...

My son bought a pair of fashionable baggy jorts at a thrift sale, and his (shorter) girlfriend also wears them as a pair of pants.

Last night at dinner, my brother-- who lives in Hamilton, New Jersey-- told us about a terrible, horrible, awful child pornography case that...

I find it odd that they serve alcohol on the airplane-- or at least in the Economy section of the airplane-- and I also find it odd that peo...

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...