Posts Tagged ‘spring’

“It’s Complicated.”

I think I need to go back to school for retraining, because I find myself unequipped for the technical and methodological demands of modern life. Specifically, I can’t understand my phone bill. It is six pages long, which as phone bills go is relatively short, but consider that I purchase six uncomplicated services: A basic [...]

The Formidably Frightening Car Alarm Fiasco

So I’m sitting in the car when I hear the tell-tale snick of all the doors locking. “All the doors just locked,” Tired of Being Youngest announced helpfully from the back seat. “I noticed that.” We are vaguely disquieted. I’m in the passenger seat, holding the keys, waiting for the Son and Heir, my apprentice [...]

Dirty Talk, or, Compost Conversation

You know, if you limit your conversation to non-controversial topics, you’ll never talk at all. And considering that these days people get pretty sensitive about a wide variety of subject matter –  not just the Big Three of Sex, Religion, and Politics — then the gag on the mouth goes for all of us, not [...]

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