Jancee Dunn

My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner__inancial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy__o he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared.When he retired, he reached new levels of preparedness, so his car contained bottled water, hand wipes, a roadside emergency kit with flares, books on tape, a coin dispenser, and two hand towels to use as makeshift bibs so he and my mother could drive and eat without making a mess.

I'm a sucker for a man who giggles__ot a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering