Sentence of Dave

This twenty-five-year-old photo of my buddies and me in some funky bar/pool hall in Amsterdam makes more sense if you look closely at the pa...

Yesterday, I remembered that when I touch the metal prong of my 1/8-inch mini jack that I plug into my laptop to connect to my Edifier deskt...

I learned a few things while reffing three soccer matches in yesterday's nor'easter: 1) I need to get a vented, transparent ref ponc...

I (barely) survived yesterday's viewing of  Resident Evil  at the Rutgers Cinema—when I wasn't laughing hysterically, which was fair...

According to the news, we are being battered by a powerful nor'easter this weekend, but so far the only trouble this storm has caused me...

Yesterday, five of us walked over to Steakhouse 85 for pub night—but there were only four seats around the corner of the bar, so Alec asked ...

Tom Perrotta's haunting novel about one strange summer in  the suburbs of New Jersey, Ghost  Town, is set in 1974—before the entirety o...

Tom Perrotta's new novel  Ghost Town is evocative, haunting, and nostalgic—each concise chapter is a set piece on grief and adolescence ...

While I was chatting at the dog park, a retired Rutgers food science teacher told me that he didn't swim in the ocean much this summer b...

Even English teachers have grammatical hurdles they struggle to clear on the daily—while I don't usually bother civilians about this one...

While I am REALLY looking forward to retiring, as grading, planning, and working in a hot and humid classroom chock full of teenagers . . . ...

Despite containing a paleontologist orgy, plenty of dinosaur action scenes, evolved avian future inheritors of the earth, and a multitude of...

Yesterday in Creative Writing Class, I noticed an otherwise occupied girl in the back of the room, who was looking intently into her compact...

Tuesday at lunch, despite being hangry, I noticed that all my lunch Tupperware containers inside my little lunch cooler were covered in a we...

  Act One of my new Pig on the Wall series is up and streaming . . . if you enjoy it, leave a good review or star rating: thanks!

Don't bother listening to Derek Thompson's podcast "What's the Point of College" -- because neither he nor Dean David ...

Oh yeah . . . it's the first time since 2009 that BOTH the Giants and the Jets have won their opening game—looks inevitable that they wi...

At night, my wife likes to get into a "made" bed, but I usually go to bed before she does—I'll go upstairs to read my book whi...

During the first month of school, when I start to lose my voice—which I inevitably do: allergies and all the talking—I actually have some vi...

This morning, just before first period, one of our co-workers thought she was having a heart attack; she was standing just outside the Engli...