So I have this really elaborate ceremony for throwing away food. It’s really more performance art than anything else. Take eggs, for example:
First I remove three or so nice fresh eggs from the fridge and crack them into a bowl. At this stage I throw away the shells…
We yell. We get so frustrated. We roll our eyes and look heavenward and pray for an end to the chaos. (Whether we believe anyone occupies the heavens or not.) We pour a glass of wine and then another just to take the edge off the stress we feel plus the…
One of the great linguistic mysteries of our time remains the magical properties of a certain English phrase. The phrase seems common and plain enough, yet it harbors an almost quantum slipperiness of the kind that once would have been ascribed to witchcraft. We…
When you’re in college, you sleep on a twin mattress, and it’s adequate for supporting bed spins and…
