Small comforts : more comments and comic pieces
Title:
Small comforts : more comments and comic pieces
JLCTITLE245:
Tom Bodett.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1987.
Physical Description:
x, 165 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780201134179
9780201136890
Abstract:
Alaska's main comic export is that rarest of commodities--an original new voice in American humor. In this, his second collection of casual essays, he muses on the everyday joys and embarrassments of being a husband, father, citizen, and breadwinner.
Contents:
Taking pot luck: Mood piece -- Mechanical inclinations -- Wood: You can count on it -- Old friend guilt -- Ditch diving -- Sixty-four-dollar-questions -- Bad signs -- Command performance -- See and be seen -- Taking potluck -- Off the top of my head -- Shake what thing? -- Pet peeves -- Wait divisions -- Cleanliness vs godliness -- Strangers in my chairs -- Symptoms of fatherhood -- Dadiholics anonymous -- Housebuilders guide to homemaking -- Dish demeanor -- Small comforts: Small comfort -- Gross estimates -- Senior boom -- Mental safety -- I aim to please -- Miss America -- Lost mail -- Chain reactions -- Burger blues -- Year of peace -- Hard comparisons -- Not letting go: Eulogy for an ancient Eskimo -- Ohlsen mountain -- State of spring -- Back to school -- Last dollar -- Pretty as a picture -- Working slobs -- Orphans -- Wow -- Father's Day -- Not letting go.