Humor essays about the small disasters and quiet absurdities of everyday existence: home improvement projects that reveal existential truths, pets who understand peace better than their owners, and the gap between who we think we are and who we actually become when nobody's watching.
Early morning and I'm standing in what used to be my kitchen, holding a prybar like it's evidence in a trial where I'm both defendant...
This morning I found Ellie, my Irish Setter, asleep on her back—legs splayed at geometrically improbable angles, one ear flopped inside-out, making soft honking noises...