It was spring again and my once disciplined lawn had forgotten all of the lessons I taught it last summer and had fallen into disarray. My orderly sea of green had become an unruly mess with tufts large enough to hide zebra-stalking lions. So I mowed. While the mower’s snout growled and chewed its [...]

  All of the clocks in my life have turned against me. I’m sure of it. Some of them run fast, some run slow, and some are just plain weird. I’m pretty sure that they talk to each other at night — trading messages encoded in ticks, tocks and the occasional bong — finding new [...]