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.
One crisp evening, Emily dragged me outside to watch the sunset paint the sky in streaks of gold and lavender. She pointed to the horizon and said,…
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I turned slowly, kneeling to meet Emily’s sleepy eyes. “Tight?” I asked gently, brushing a stray curl from her forehead.She nodded, frowning. “Like… like someone was squeezing…
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I rented a small room above an old garage on the east side of town. The landlord was a retired electrician named Tomasz who charged me less…
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