It’s gotten harder — it’s gotten a LOT harder, and I’ll tell you why. Well, okay, I guess I should say first that it’s a different world from when I started out. Back in the …

Regina: Hey, what’s up — ack ack ack AAACK!
Sarah: Hi, nothing much — what what what what?
Regina: I just — erk! — have to disentangle these — guh! — wire hangers from themselves — ACK! …

Hey, kids — it’s time to turn those “you can’t fucking smoke in the fucking bars in New York fucking City anymore, for fuck’s sake” frowns upside-down! Well, we at Deadly Nightshade Industries do know …

As you probably know, I write an advice column, in which I counsel petitioners on everything from the rules of English usage to break-up etiquette to whether gout is contagious (it isn’t). But over the …

Madeline went out into the lane in front of the house, turned right, and began to walk down it, off to find Charlie. It was the kind of cold day that didn’t feel all that …

I come from a caring, loving family whose company I enjoy. I do not, however, come from a mellow, noncompetitive, “it’s not whether you win or lose” family, because in the Bunting family, winning is …

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Regina: Hey, you know that guy with the…face? The rat face? From that movie?
Sarah: Jan-Michael Vincent?
Regina: No, no — that guy. The blond rat-faced guy?
Sarah: Big tall blond rat-faced guy, or little scrawny blond rat-faced …

I’ve never really subscribed to the theory that bad-day karma clusters around Mondays. I mean, sure, irritating things tend to happen on Mondays, but irritating things tend to happen every day, and the fact that …

Dear Reader/Housecat Survivor,
Welcome to the National Audubon Society’s Field Guide To Gaits Of The Domesticated Feline. Researched and written by the same authors who brought you the National Audubon Society’s Field Guide To Vomitus Of …

Driving home from Toronto the other night, I ran into snow right around Syracuse, a turn of meteorological events which I actually welcomed, suffering as I do from a disorder known to the layperson as …