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
Ten films the whole house can watch, G to PG-13, one joke apiece, ranked.
By Constance Tally
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
Domestic Affairs
The corner that pops off at 3 a.m. is not a tucking failure. It is a sizing standard that quietly stopped matching the mattress it is sold to cover.
By Hollis Carver
The Parlour
Seven rulings graded against the register: the price was the disclosure, the building wants a caretaker rather than an occupant, and the best inspection on file was of a cabinet.
By Casimir Vane
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
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.
