Damage Control: How to Tiptoe Away from the Smoking Wreckage of Your Latest Screw-Up with a Minimum of Harm to Your Reputation

An advice columnist for Canada's The Globe and Mail, Eddie (Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad) brings a comical, offbeat approach to trying situations in all aspects of life, including courtship, marriage, family, children, friends, and the workplace. Using his own multitude of screw-ups-in his career, social circle, and married life-along with questions from his print and online readers, Eddie manages to combine direct, no-nonsense advice with an irreverent tone and winding, self-deprecating anecdotes from his life. While enumerating useful and widely applicable Damage Control Rules like ""Sometimes, silence is golden, because it is almost impossible to interpret, and you haven't gone on the record one way or another,"" Eddie also takes time to denounce the man-bashing caricatures on Sex in the City as the reason so many flesh-and-blood women are single, consider the travails of the office hottie, and analyze protocol regarding a couple whose best friends have begun hanging out at a nudist colony. Though serious problems come under the scope, readers will laugh often while learning that there's nothing a person can do, no matter how awful or humiliating, that can't become an opportunity for learning and betterment.