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.
Every morning of my adult life, I watched my stepfather Patrick pedal down the block before sunrise, wrapped in layers and determination, a canvas bag of newspapers…
Head lice are a frustrating and exhausting problem for many families, especially once school resumes and children spend long hours in close contact with one another. While…
The lights were already on when I pulled into the driveway. That was my first warning. I remember pausing on the porch, key halfway to the lock,…
An elderly widow was quietly preparing to freeze. No money. No firewood. No way out. Her desperate call to a tree service wasn’t a plea for charity…
The morning air at the Grand Azure Hotel carried a scent that could not be mistaken for anything else. It smelled like money—fresh-cut imported roses, ocean salt…
At 33 years old, and thirty-five weeks pregnant, I believed I was standing at the edge of the happiest chapter of my life. I had done everything…