Sentence of Dave

This year for Halloween, the English Department decided to dress as various book titles-- e.g. Rachel wore a catcher's mask and carried ...

I'm always surprised when I stumble upon some music-- whether new, old, or obscure-- that mesmerizes and enthralls me . . . the past few...

As I was about to fall asleep, some subconscious beacon from deep in my brain reminded me that I did not write my sentence today, and now I ...

I needed a break from reading the dense and detailed (but very well-written) slog that is James M. McPherson's Battle Cry for Freedom: T...

The natives (i.e. the high school students) were annoying today-- restless, sleepy, and chatty . . . perhaps because the PSAT is tomorrow, s...

My wife and I finished watching  Fisk -- a deadpan, often cringingly awkward, but ultimately heartwarming Australian workplace comedy-- and ...

If you see me walking my dog, but I'm doing a strange shuffle, forwards, backwards, sideways . . . dragging my feet through the grass, e...

There's nothing more American than spelling stuff however the fuck we want to spell it; this goes for brand names, of course: Kwik-E-Mar...

  If only there were a method—some mnemonic . . . a way to jog my memory—to remind me which pair of my hiking shoes is waterproof.

My life has improved exponentially since I quit watching the boring, colorless, slow, pedantic, ponderous dystopian TV show Silo  . . . what...

My team started off hot at morning basketball today, we won the first four games handily-- and we only had ten players, so there were no sub...

After enduring the Giants once-in-a-generation historic collapse yesterday-- apparently for the last 1,602 games, teams leading by 18 points...

My wife is away on a ladies' trip to Rhode Island (but she's still assigning me chores from out of state: water my garden, take my c...

Today my writing is on Gheorghe: The Blog , and I'm quite proud of it, but you're going to have to read this piece by my buddy Whitn...

To celebrate working all five days of this grueling five-day week-- and the 24,000 steps I accumulated over the course of the day, comprised...

I was shooting the shit with another veteran educator yesterday, and we were discussing our exit strategies from the field when a student wa...

After we read James Wright's serene and transcendent poem "A Blessing,"  I like to have my Creative Writing students draw the ...

Dave is crushing it today; he's a killer . . . for the second morning in a row, he solved the Wordle in two guesses, and he also made a ...

It's not quite English, but you get the gist.  

A very un-Dave weekend, but I survived and had a pretty damned good time, despite all the traffic: Saturday morning, I drove my Kia Sportage...