Description: Joan and Jim Nash are a married couple who live in an old, turreted house in Ridgemont, New York, with their four rambunctious sons, a live-in maid, and an enormous Old English sheepdog named Ladadog. Jim is a college English professor. Joan—who abhors everything having to do with homemaking and housework and is a freelance newspaper columnist whose columns focus on the humorous side of family life.