Sentence of Dave

Today is my wife's birthday, and there have already been TWO birthday miracles: 1) our local and venerable candy factory, Birnn Chocolat...

This morning, I started screwing around with a very special digital something that I wanted to post today, but then I got sidetracked and fo...

We joined my mom yesterday for a fairly mellow Thanksgiving—the first one without my dad—but we had plenty of good Pilgrim food that he woul...

I am thankful for all the usual things, of course-- family, friends, a steady job, shelter, hot water, a loyal dog-- but I am also thankful ...

This morning, as I was weaving through the back roads on my way to work (because all the main roads have been under construction) I came to ...

I've come into contact with two oddball works of artistry this week, and I am enjoying both immensely: 1) The Zombies' 1969 album Od...

Like most people, unforeseen expensive house repairs put me in a dark funk (although this particular repair was not exactly unforeseen, it w...

After watching the Giants blow another lead, I took a number of large laundry items-- comforters, afghans, a small rug-- to the local laundr...

My wife and I purchased some cheap Rutgers men's basketball tickets for the game last night-- $15 each for the second level-- and now we...

I thought I was taking a mental health day today-- I drank some beers and ate some hot chicken last night, and I had plenty to do around the...

I nearly forgot to write a sentence today because I burned my eyes out trying to grade senior synthesis essays about Susan Faludi's ...

  A brand-spanking-new sign has been erected by the powers-that-be atop the hill by my house, the Donaldson Park slope otherwise known as th...

  I don't know about you, but I am ALWAYS ripping my socks when I put them on-- this certainly happens frequently when I yank on old soc...

I wish I could spend time writing a witty and entertaining sentence, but I've got to do other amusing Monday-type things, such as rake a...

I am proud to say that I have completed my soccer referee training, and I am now a licensed referee-- today I had to drive to Newark and do ...

I endured seven hours of a soccer referee certification course today-- we viewed hundreds of slides, I took many pages of notes, we watched ...

What a fucking week-- loads of standardized testing and proctoring, and then actual teaching-- the seniors were not as fascinated as I am b...

New Jersey's NJSLA adaptive field test was delayed due to technical issues with the testing platform, but that didn't stop the state...

Yesterday, one of my colleagues-- who was a serious competitive dancer-- was lamenting the fact that the Rockettes have recently removed the...

I had a wicked headache today-- probably due to a combination of playing morning basketball, the drastic change in the weather, and not enou...