I don't know if you have noticed this, but my family relies heavily on humor for communication and bonding. When we all lived in one place, we'd spend evenings watching stand-up comic specials or movie comedies, share clips of favorite comedy TV shows, endlessly quote lines from funny movies, and had informal competitions to make... Continue Reading →
I've never really had "peers." When I was in my twenties and having kids, most of my peers were doing normal stuff for 20-year-olds, so I couldn't relate to them. I couldn't hang out with classmates at university, because I had responsibilities at home, and none of my classmates wanted to hang out with me... Continue Reading →
So I rent a car every once in a while, usually for a very short time, and usually for a frantic sprint of errands and chores that leaves no time for the more pleasurable things one can do with a car. But this weekend was an exception. Having scored a little Mazda 3 from Hertz with... Continue Reading →
They didn't have a lot of money. The added responsibility of a second household strained the seams of an already stretched budget. In the time since he started working in Portland, they'd only seen each other in person three times, twice as a result of airline tickets purchased for him by generous relatives. His job,... Continue Reading →
We've had a lot of car juggling going on the past several months, which all began when the car Matt was using up in Michigan decided that it was no longer interested in bending to our wicked ways. This all started with a flat tire, and that happened when Meg was attempting to drive the... Continue Reading →
Meg Currell 