This Is Us

The Art of Being Useless

How can I ever be an adequate contributor to this family if I can’t even buy a damn dishwasher?

Illustrations by Edith Zimmerman

I’ve always admired handy people: people who can build things or weld things or do under-the-hood things. I’m not a handy person and most would say that I’m downright useless when it comes to completing even the simplest…