What is it like to live with a Writer?

You get little comments like these without warning and (mostly) free of charge:

"I like this time of year. All the colors come out and it's a different quality of miserable than what we have the rest of the time."

The Teacher, to whom this was addressed, almost swallowed her tongue.

People laugh at me the most when I'm being completely serious. I'd be lying if I said I didn't know why.