It was in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday when I got a text from Skylar. "I'm sooooo hungryyyyyy" it said. He's been working long shifts at the

We decided it was time to neuter Louie (dogs don't have very many rights still). We had planned to wait until after his first birthday, which is in one month

[Announcement: Strangerville Live will is this week, September 16 & 17. You can get tickets and find other info about the storytellers HERE. Please come so we can see how

It probably wasn’t until I was nearly a teenager that I was even aware of coffee. Sure, I had encountered it before, but I doubt I wondered what it

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A couple of years ago Skylar visited his friend Emma in Oakland. This isn't really relevant to this story, but I already need to pause here and let you know

I just walked into the coffee shop—the same one where I go every day—to write. But it's hard. I get distracted. Distracted by the same people who are

I started working from home in 2020. I don't remember why. Something something social distancing. Hard to recall events that long ago. By 2021, a lot of my law firm

A handful of dog claws scraped across my face and I could tell marks were already forming. This is how I was awoken from not-a-great sleep, a new daily tradition

I started law school in 2008, which may have been the worst possible year to start law school. The economic recession had hit the legal market hard, and when it

We found it in an art gallery in a small town in southwestern Ireland—a framed ceramic piece featuring small blue fish swimming in a circle. I told Skylar I

We returned from two weeks in Ireland and Northern Ireland last night. It was lovely. We ate potatoes for every meal. Skylar now thinks we are going to name our

We were standing on the side of a street, waiting to cross it, when Skylar was robbed. The culprit was a man in grey sweatpants speeding through a busy thousand-year-old

This piece was reader submitted by Jen Prinster; art by Christopher Patty. Long before high-back booster seats with side impact protection, children were bouncing around in cars like pinball machines.

A wet nose pressed into my neck. A moment later I felt the shove of four dog legs against my exhausted body. I inched closer to the edge of the

In  2012 I was living in Palau, in the equatorial pacific, for work. Palau is 17 hours ahead of Utah time, where I was from. I woke up that morning

It began at 9:00 and ended three months from now. At least, that's how long graduation felt. I made the mistake—a regrettable misjudgment—to arrive promptly at 9:

Over the years I've had friends tell me that once you start having kids, everything takes ten times longer. No outing is uncomplicated. No activity can ever truly be spontaneous.

"I can't find the charger for the drill," the ominous text said without any further explanation. I started typing back. The first word of my text was "why," which I

"What color are my eyes?" Skylar had shut them before he asked me, a measure aimed at preventing me from "cheating." "Dazzling?" My answer was rejected because "that's not a

My great aunt La Donna called me last week to let me know she was coming into town from Palm Desert to attend my grandma's 90th birthday party. "They've asked

Look. I didn't intend to fill your lives with puppy poop stories this year. I had hoped to have a more diverse catalogue of anecdotes for you in 2022. This

"Are you doing this just to annoy me?" I answered by telling Skylar he needed to be more specific. That's when he held up a sock. A perfectly fine sock.

Skylar's mother has had some health scares recently, which has stressed both of us out greatly. I won the mother-in-law lottery and it makes me sick to think of anything

I was pulling weeds from the flower bed in the front yard when I realized I suddenly had company. "Oh, hello there," I said to Louie who was standing on