Domestic Affairs · By Design
The dent behind the door is not an accident of use. It is the predictable output of hanging a swinging slab beside a fixed obstacle and shipping it without a stop.
By Hollis Carver
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
The pre-rinse feels diligent and is counter-productive. Modern detergent is built to attack food residue. Remove the residue and you remove its target.
By Vera Stipple
Domestic Affairs
The musty note in the bathroom is not a nuisance to mask. It is an early-warning chemical signal, and your nose is absurdly good at reading it.
By Vera Stipple
From the Editor's Desk
Every other problem in the house yields to owning less. One does not. We checked it against the definition of Hell and regret the match.
By The Editor
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
Domestic Affairs
The small, fast, agile thing working your bush is almost certainly a bee, just not one of the two you grew up naming. A field key for the other nineteen thousand species.
By Wren Marsh
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Fill every row, column, and box with the digits 1 through 9. A single unique solution exists.
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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.
