Sentence of Dave

Two away Cross Club Pickleball matches in one weekend is one too many-- I played well yesterday at the Pickle House down in Robbinsville (I ...

The Corner Tavern—the bar in New Brunswick where I met my wife (actually, I met her just outside the bar, when I exited—because she was only...

By the end of parent-teacher conference week, the contrast between the demeanor of the English teachers with the parents and the demeanor of...

82°F earlier in the week, and now it's snowing-- when the fuck is the porridge going to be just right?

I thought it would be a good idea to read Vasily Grossman's epic WWII novel Stalingrad , but now that I'm 700 pages deep and trapped...

While I don't like the fact that it got THIS hot this quickly, the unseasonably warm weather is great for airing out smelly things, whet...

I was very happy yesterday, after the Knicks threw up another airball in a messy game against the Lakers, when the announcer blamed Daylight...

Great weekend: a lot of old friends; a lot of rugby on the telly; a lot of Guinness consumed; a fair amount of Z played; and a fabulous Hobo...

Yesterday,  after riding a slow local and very full train to Newark Penn, and then a crowded PATH train to Jersey City, I then walked over a...

I'm not sure why we're calling this coordinated attack on Iran "Epic Fury"-- I thought Iran was epically furious with us--...

Today was dark, both weather-wise and literacy-wise . . . it was one of those days in class when you're fairly sure that nobody has read...

My friend and fellow English teacher Janson recommended the Canadian math rock duo Angine de Poitrine to me because he knew their music woul...

I am the master at cooking blackened salmon in a cast-iron pan: I coat the filets with melted butter and then I sprinkle a mixture of blacke...

Dr. Seuss and his cat-- they knew some good tricks-- They made a big mess for rainy-day kicks. Thing One and Thing Two ran wild-- yikes! Lik...

Last night, I drank four good beers, and we ate a bunch of delicious fried fish (black cod) and fried coconut shrimp at Wu's Fish House ...

After gently digging it out, my bamboo—which was buried underneath two feet of snow-- has sprung back to life.

You should look before you leap, and you should also look before you drink out of a cup in the bathroom in the middle of the night-- which I...

A student that I know quite well was taking forever on a quiz, and so I said to him, jokingly, "Okay, Nico, finish it up . . . take you...

My students did presentations today about works of art that tackle "the establishment" or a particular system-- racism, colonialis...

Most excellent snow day: did all the shoveling yesterday, and the roads were clear this morning, so I played pickleball and then met my wife...