The House of Happypants

Unbecca Craft

Sep 25, 2025

Ode to a Fridge

Was feeling a little blue… my first ever appliance purchase died. I was on a tight budget when I bought the house and had to look for coupons and sales to get through the list. Learned after the fact that Samsung is notoriously terrible, but I scored a deal at an outlet that made it […]
Unbecca Craft

Sep 24, 2025

Parking Lot Theatre

At my place of employment, our suite is second from the end of a row of fourteen units. For months now I’ve been trying to avoid this Lexus SUV that insists on parking backwards. There is no reason for it. No, none! He always parks next to me—too close—and since he backs in, I’m always […]
Unbecca Craft

Sep 18, 2025

Machiavellian Maybe

If you have ever read, googled, listened to a podcast, or been advised by the “experts” on dog behavior, you’ve probably heard the same lecture over and over: dogs do not plot, scheme, or act out of revenge or malice. “Dogs live in the present. They lack the cognitive ability to plan or plot for […]
Unbecca Craft

Sep 12, 2025

The Plotz Thickens

Way back, in the ‘80s, everyone walked home from school; the soft-footed kids of today just don’t know… My walk home included crossing a pretty busy street. There was a crosswalk, and I did use it, but you really felt what that frog was going through trying to get to the other side before a […]
Unbecca Craft

Sep 11, 2025

Foxtails; Detri-mental health

Earlier this evening, I took John and Yoko for a post-dinner stroll. We didn’t make it one house length before Dumb and Dumber plunged their pilfering faces into a cluster of dead weeds. Almost instantly, Brick started sneezing. violently. spraying everything in a ten-snoot radius with blood spatter. After an hour, my parental panic took […]
Unbecca Craft

Jun 25, 2025

An Old Prompt

I have some kind of [undiagnosed] mental disorder that requires me to save things obsessively. Since the passing of my father, I have been reading old emails. In ~2008 I was taking a creative writing class at the local community college and would send all of my assignments to my dad to proofread. Though I […]
Unbecca Craft

Dec 3, 2024

First Kiss

I don’t know how things are now, when my nieces were starting school in the early 00’s they had homework from day one, including kindergarten. When I was in kindergarten, you had to be a good napper, good at using the potty without help, good at eating snacks and being quiet at story time. I’d […]
Unbecca Craft

Nov 20, 2024

The Great Fence Project

I sat on the patio yesterday in uncomfortable outdoor temps, attempting this rant on my phone with my thumbs, I didn’t finish. Today my hands are chapped and itchy from sitting in the cold, but I’m still annoyed and must complete this, thankfully from the comfort of my cubicle! I am in a unique position […]
Unbecca Craft

Oct 9, 2024

Church Bells

I woke up this morning missing Aunt Jo. I expect it is because a cousin is getting married this Saturday and I really really wish I could go. Having two big, aging, high maintenance dogs inhibits travel. Add that one is still recovering from two hip removal surgeries in a 3-month period and – aside […]
Unbecca Craft

Sep 9, 2024

Absolutely Maybe

It’s been an expensive year as far as vet bills are concerned, we’ve just passed the low five figure mark as Maybe’s gone and busted the remaining hip. When her right hip was dislocated, I had no idea. I saw the weakness but she is also positive for Cushing’s and muscle weakness is a symptom […]