If you graduated school prior to the year 2000, chances are, you might have taken
a home economics or home studies class…if you were a girl that is.
There’s no denying how useful it is to learn these principles of domesticity.
Nowadays, the idea of women and men looking after the home and family is more accepted.
But sadly, home economics classes are dying out, and fewer schools are
giving their children – girls and boys – the opportunity to learn the basic skills of adulthood.
There are moments in life when the world doesn’t just stop; it shifts, reconfigures itself, and leaves you standing in the middle of something you never asked…
I wasn’t actively looking for her. Not really. But somehow, every December, when the house dimmed by 5 p.m. and the old string lights flickered in the…
At my very first meeting with my fiancé’s family, his mother threw a glass of wine in my face and laughed cruelly, “Just disinfecting the poor! Want…
You feel the weight of the mahogany door slam in your face like a gunshot in a neighborhood where chaos is never supposed to surface. The sound…
At the supermarket, my daughter murmured, “Mom, isn’t that Dad?” I followed her gaze—and there he was. My husband. But he was supposed to be on a…
When my son Liam was rushed to the hospital after a severe accident, everything else in my life faded into the background. Nothing mattered except him. The…