Try, Try Again
Whenever I would read about someone publishing a book for the first time, the narrative went something like this: “I [...]
Dave’s Top Ten List My Top Ten Pet Peeves
Remarkably, I have only ten pet peeves, which is about 28 fewer than the average middle-aged American’s and 143 fewer [...]
They’re All Grown Up Now
Right now, my son is outside, forging a flagstone walkway from our driveway to our front stoop. It’s 8:45 on [...]
Teen Angels
Admit it: I say “teenagers,” and a part of you recoils in horror. They smell weird. They have zits. They [...]
Hyphen Envy
It’s not as if I were an immigrant and a part of me was Mexican or French or Ghanaian while [...]
Perfect Timing
(A guest blog written for my friend Lauree Ostrofsky at Simply Leap.) I’ve been an English professor for 30 years, [...]
Dave’s Top Ten List: Worst Songs of the ’70s
I woke up yesterday morning haunted by my dream. Not by the dream itself—that was fairly typical (I was about [...]
Richard Samuel Hicks
My father died six and a half years ago. At first, right afterward, he was "around." Hovering, I guess you [...]
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