Diversions · Diversions · The Strip
The paper's first comic strip. It is silent, it is weekly, and it concerns a routine municipal inspection. We are told it has an ending. We have chosen to trust the process.
By The Editor
Domestic Affairs
Linen bedding spans a twelvefold price range for one fiber. We priced the whole bed three ways, did the per-night arithmetic, and checked what the money actually buys.
By Hollis Carver
Domestic Affairs
Running out of the one thing you cannot run out of is not absent-mindedness. It is a missing threshold, and the threshold is one line of arithmetic.
By Iris Petty
The Kitchen Desk
Stock is not a recipe. It is the refusal to throw out the parts of dinner that still have a job to do.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
Owning the right number of socks is not a personality. It is a buffer calculation, and it fits on one line.
By Iris Petty
Domestic Affairs
You cannot end the laundry. You can stop making decisions inside it: one wash class, one buffer quantity, one identical load, forever.
By Iris Petty
The Kitchen Desk
Build a week of grab-and-go snacks yourself on Sunday, once you know how long each piece actually keeps.
By R. Dunmore
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Trace a path from START to EXIT. Difficulty: Gentle. Pen, not pencil — we believe in you.
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
