As the battle with quarantine rages, I’ve been searching high and low for solutions to the boredom that is filling our house. We’ve exploded stick bombs, sprayed each other in the face with spray bottles, lined up every shoe in the house, and watched every episode of PJ Masks several hundred times. And while all […]
How and Why to Avoid the Walmart Grocery Pickup Coronavirus Drive of Shame
I feel an important obligation to interrupt my usual commentary and present you with this treatise written by a proactive Walmart worker. She handed it to me after she finished loading 8 giant tubs of oatmeal into my trunk. I told her I was making cookies. She didn’t believe me. Whatever your reason for going […]
Memorial Held for Latest Resident Life Claimed by Vacational Affective Disorder
Yesterday, June 24th, a memorial was held to honor the memory of Johnny Dough, a beloved third year medical resident at Lima Londa Hospital in Southern California. His friends, family, and the medical community in which he was an integral part will miss him dearly. “I wish I had seen the signs,” said one of […]
An Instagram User’s Struggle: The Father’s Day Tribute
We woke up Sunday morning and the first thing Rhett said to me was, “You better post about me on Instagram.” Out of character, this demand struck me as odd until I fully woke up to the realization that it was Father’s Day. Of course I would post about him. What else would a loving […]
Are Microwaves Necessary?: A Social Experiment
It’s Day 17 without a microwave, and the natives are growing restless. I awoke this morning to a thought that is becoming all too familiar: What if we don’t survive this day? We’ve been lucky to make it this far in such uncharted territory. Residents of this island are an impatient toddler, a father who […]
I Fought a Vacuum Cleaner…and Lost
I can only assume that most of us have had days that feel like we’ve sleep walked into the center of an active volcano, set up a lounge chair, and turned on the world’s most poorly made movie to pass the time while we wait for molten lava to melt us feet first. The demolition […]