Sentence of Dave

On "A" days, I usually walk outside during my off period with a couple of other English teachers, and though it was cold today, we...

I'm nearly finished with Patrick Ryan's small-town Ohio saga,  Buckeye-- and the book features both harrowing tales from WWII and ha...

A sad and ironic state of affairs: when there is a questionable play during a professional football game, the NFL has a comprehensive Instan...

It's freezing cold here, and we got slammed with snow all day, but after three shoveling sessions, we have removed most of it-- the only...

My wife and I were watching the wonderful Australian show Colin from Accounts,  and Gordon and Gene were having some incomprehensible, awkwa...

 Last night's "battle of the bands' was very entertaining, but I did not realize that part of the responsibility of judging the...

I am judging a "battle of the bands" tonight at my high school, and apparently, there is a rubric to help us judge each band, but ...

How can I concentrate on writing a sentence when an impending cataclysmic snowpocalypse is headed our way?-- especially when my wife's d...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry lately when I read the Times . . . absurdity is hard to reckon with-- but I'm going to record a...

It is cold (and growing colder) and I have  a cold (which is growing bolder).

Last Tuesday night, just before bed-- after a long day of fitness: I played basketball in the morning and then went to PT for my hamstring i...

We finished a picaresque TV show last night-- The Lowdown -- which is about Lee Raybon, a rogue journalist (played in masterful Lebowski-esq...

Saturday night, my son left the oven baking at 450 degrees all night-- he heated up some late-night pizza and then forgot to turn it off, so...

I have taught for a long time, and this is a record: the smallest legible handwriting I have ever seen (the student was creating Art History...

Today, after we watched a TED Talk about how bad architecture has ruined American cities, suburbs, and public spaces,  I took my students on...

After attending morning basketball for the first time in a few weeks (the steroid shot in my knee seems ot be working) I am covering a Senio...

Today was a long and emotionally taxing day at school—but there were emotional support dogs.

Not looking forward to going to school tomorrow: apparently, an East Brunswick senior was shot and killed yesterday by another teenager in S...

My friend is having a 60th birthday party tonight, and it starts at 8 PM . . . that's nearly past my bedtime, and I'm only 55!

Some high-quality TV recommendations: 1) if you're looking for something dark and artsy (and filmed in Italy in beautifully rendered bla...