Domestic Affairs · Stores
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
Recipes are written in units the store does not sell. Here is what to do with the difference.
By R. Dunmore
The Parlour
The history of extraterrestrial arrival, assembled from the only archive available. With corrections, and one personnel matter regarding our staff illustrator.
By The Editor
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
We are a manual with a masthead. Everything in these pages is real, testable, and faintly insulting in how obvious it turns out to be.
By The Editor
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
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
A gentle midweek crossword. Every clue is fair. Every answer 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.
