Category: Comedy

• I am (becoming) a pest!

  

  I’m obsessing. Just totally obsessing about our new house. Poor Mark. I am becoming such a pest about it! The first thing we need is a new chandelier for the dining room. So I’m scouring Lamps Plus for some ideas and presenting said ideas to Mark. Every night. But then in a weird twist of…

  Mindy Carlson

  March 6, 2017

  Comedy, Homemaking

  Funny stories, house, house hunters

• Berkeley Episode 6: Dance of the Sugar Plum Ecstasy Fairies

  

  The Berkeley of my twenties was an era of experimentation. My experimentation was pretty tame, though, and limited to food, sex, and pot. (They didn’t call me White Bread for nothing.) I wasn’t even much of a smoker. Back in college I had made an attempt at coolness that ended after a case of strep…

  Mindy Carlson

  February 6, 2017

  Comedy

  Funny stories, The Berkeley Chronicals

• The Unexpected Banker: Berkeley Episode 5

  Back in the late 1990s the California economy was booming and interest rates were lowering. Refinancing a mortgage was fairly common. (Or so my economist husband informs me…) Apparently our landlord Burt rose of his haze of booze and pot smoke long enough to figure this out, too, and we were given notice to expect…

  Mindy Carlson

  July 10, 2016

  Comedy

  Funny stories, The Berkeley Chronicals