One More Thing – April 2022

Home Improvement by Tyler Sjostrom My wife and I moved into our house in the weeks after we were married in 2016, and the backhanded praise from early visitors was always the same. “It’s so cute! What a great starter house! You’ll certainly get to know each other!”...

One More Thing – Jan/Feb 2022

Winter in Analog by Tyler Sjostrom First socks, then bread bags, then boots. The various memories of my youth that seem impossible in hindsight, from nonexistent child-safety precautions in cars to the entire Milli Vanilli saga, are too numerous to count. But of all...

One More Thing – December 2021

Christmas, Don’t Be Late by Tyler Sjostrom I think that every Christmas, when you look back on it, has a theme. In my personal history, they certainly do. There was the Christmas of the Sega Genesis in 1991, when my brothers and I hurled controllers at the TV...

One More Thing – October 2021

The Best Parts of Fall by Tyler Sjostrom One of the rites of fall — admit it, you and I and your mom all do it — is to gush about the adorable fallness of it all. Ooh, pumpkin spice! Ah, soup season! AND OH MY GAWD HAVE YOU SEEN THE LEAVES. But believe me, autumn is a...

One More Thing – September 2021

A Fond Farewell to (Songs of) Summer by Tyler Sjostrom “I remember every moment; time was all we had until the day we said goodbye.” Richard Marx, “Endless Summer Nights” Much ink has been spilled about the so-called end of “monoculture,” the phenomenon where all...