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.
My husband was away, my in-laws beat me with a stick in the middle of our family Christmas party just because I refused to give my savings…
My dad didn’t even let me say hello. His voice hit my ear sharp and steady, the way people sound when they’ve already practiced the speech in…
They cast me out, along with my ten-day-old twins, into the biting cold of a midnight street. A glob of spittle from my mother-in-law struck my cheek….
The text landed just as my kettle clicked off. Three words detonated a decade of being the “good daughter.” “You’re banned from Thanksgiving, idiot.” I closed my…
The blinking light was easy to overlook, appearing quietly late at night when the house was still. At first, it seemed like an ordinary signal from a…
The animal shelter buzzed with its usual chaos that afternoon—dogs barking from every direction, cats crying from behind metal bars, volunteers calling out over the clatter of leashes and…