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 – March 2022

A Glut of Gizmos by Tyler Sjostrom I am going to talk about four kitchen gadgets, two that I made up, and two that you can actually purchase and leave virtually untouched until the oceans swallow us whole. The Frankformer: Do you love hot dogs, but are repulsed by...

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 – November 2021

The Tale of the One-Leg Viking by Tyler Sjostrom Like a lot of kids my age in our North Dakota region near the Canadian border, I’ll never forget the first time I saw Seth Nieman.  And this is because, even in fifth grade, he was an actual man among boys. When he ran...