Sentence of Dave

I just did some laps in the pool at the YMCA, and while I wouldn't call myself a strong swimmer, I'm certainly a smooth swimmer—but ...

Today was the first real day of summer for me—a weekday when everyone else is working, and I have no obligations, so I can do shit during of...

Widow's Bay , a show that perfectly balances horror and comedy, follows the struggles of Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) as he tries to ...

Although my plumbing skills are abysmal -- as is fitting and proper for an English teacher—I am capable of measuring, drilling, and screwing...

My buddy Whitney (a.k.a. Les Coole) and his co-host Penny Baker do a fantastic radio show on Tuesday nights on WODU , and last Tuesday they ...

Another school year in the books: we loaded the kids on the bus, I cleaned up my room, we chatted in the English office, I ran over to the v...

The women in the English Department like to do things communally, especially get coffee from WaWa and pay too much for food delivery . . . a...

I went to the dermatologist today, and she used a liquid nitrogen spray to freeze off some actinic keratosis on my nose and the top of my he...

  My wife makes her own granola (and now I'm spoiled: it's much more delicious than store-bought).

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there . . . but honestly, considering how easy it is to become a dad-- I won't get into th...

If you're looking for some music recs, my buddy Deatz has started a zine-like blog called Deatz Beats , where he posts playlists and odd...

At my age and fitness level, the rules of the game seem to be: no impact sports (pickleball, basketball, soccer, tennis) two days in a row--...

Teenagers don't know who Paul Simon is.

It's nearly summer, and so I'm taking a break from Robert Caro's twelve-hundred-page bio of Robert Moses, The Power Broker , and...

Today was the best possible weather-- sunny and dry and 78 degrees-- and I know other parts of the country experience this regularly (fuck y...

  The last days of school with seniors are taxing and silly-- there's nothing at stake, most of them are exempt from the final exam, and...

  It nearly killed me (and Shakespeare is to blame . . . too many things happen in this section of the play), but I have finally finished my...

I was midway through Jane Harper's fantastic (and very grim) Australian thriller The Dry  when I realized the Libby Kindle loan had expi...

I took my last personal day today, and it's been a pretty good day, pretty pretty good . . . I walked the dog-- no barkin', no smog-...

I went out and had a couple of beers for the first half of the Knicks game last night-- 3 dollar Miller Lights at our local bar!-- then I wa...