Sentence of Dave

Some of the Gettysburg experience: Seminary Hill, Cemetery Hill, Pickett's suicidal Charge, Little Round Top, Big Round Top-- with my se...

Longwood Gardens is a horticultural wonderland, but it is NOT a quick stop on the way to Gettysburg-- we were waylaid there for quite a whil...

In this episode of   We Defy Augury , I wade deep into the shit and discuss some thoughts (loosely) inspired by Seth Harp's military ex...

Bring Her Back, the new Australian horror film by directors Danny and Michael Phillippou, tells the story of a foster mother named Laura who...

I'm not sure if other people do this, but my friends and I have a text strand where we text each other our puzzle results-- Wordle, Conn...

We went out with friends last night, and I was a bit foggy this morning, and I wasn't sure why-- I didn't drink that  much last nigh...

As usual, at the gym today, I was simultaneously working out AND trying to expand my musical horizons-- multi-tasking!-- and today I was exp...

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...