Residual Parenting Skills

There are skills that I developed as a parent that have come in handy even with no kids around. I can remove a splinter. I can feed an uncooperative creature. I can remove

Name Your Own Wifi

We have two kinds of neighbors: those who have renamed their wifi router with their family name and those who have left the model name and number unchanged. We are the only neighbor

Phone Menu

When are companies going to stop changing their phone system menu? Or at least stop telling us that their menu recently changed.

Dreaming Anxiety

I don't feel a lot of anxiety in my life right now, but my dreams seem to indicate otherwise. In a series of vignettes in my dream (or maybe in a

Bathroom Bear

There's a moment before I turn on the light when a shadow flashes in the dark. It is not caused by the light itself, but by the coming of the light.