I shopped for tall tumbler glasses. My wife recently broke another of my Crate & Barrel glasses. I‘m down to 2. I had bought four place settings when I moved to New York back in 2007. S has been slowly breaking all of the things I owned before she came along. I see a subtle ploy in her “accidents”.

On her own birthday, my wife ran errands with the kids for hours, then rescued a mistakenly bought supreme pizza by transferring its toppings onto her cauliflower crust so nothing went to waste. My contribution was buying the gifts she linked me and forgetting to photograph a single moment of it.

Being first on the trail each morning has one cost: my face clears every spider web strung across it overnight. This is the season of the big harmless ones, prolific and everywhere, and the webs on the road were somehow worse than the trail. I hope the runners behind me are grateful.