Welcome to the Nuthouse! A Year in the Life of a Suburban Family

In a new book, nationally syndicated humor columnist Peter McKay talks about kids, marriage, pets, and misguided and somewhat dangerous home repair projects.

Welcome to the Nuthouse!

A Year in the Life of a Suburban Family

By Nationally-Syndicated Humor columnist
Peter McKay
ISBN: 1-932303-10-3
168 pages
Trade paperback -- 5" x 8"

About the Book

Each evening, suburban father Peter McKay entertained his wife and five children at the dinner table with his smart aleck stories. At the request of his family, he stopped talking so much during dinner and let them chew in peace. Instead, he began to write his comments in the form of a weekly column about life in the "Nuthouse."

"Welcome to the Nuthouse!" chronicles a year in the life of a typical suburban family, complete with attacking squirrels, exploding pipes, beheaded mice, and misguided and somewhat dangerous home repair projects. Some columns are funny, while others are more touching. But all of it will remind you that life is a series of events, big and small, poignant and hilarious, touching and embarrassing. Documenting the days of his life, Peter McKay reminds us that we should all keep track of what happens in our family lives so that we can use it against our kids some day.

About the Author

Peter McKay is a humor columnist whose work appears weekly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And his columns have run in Irish America Magazine and the British web journal opendemocracy.net" His "HomeMaking" column is syndicated to other papers across the country by Creators Syndicate.

Peter came by humor writing late in life, having worked for years as a banana salesman, bureaucrat and a corporate attorney. While continuing produce his weekly column, Peter is also working on a novel about life in the suburbs, The Voyage of the Emily Ruth"