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.
At eighteen, my life didn’t fracture because of a reckless mistake or a rushed wedding, but because of a three-in-the-morning silence that signaled my mother had vanished…
During my two-week stay in the hospital, silence became my closest companion. My children lived in different cities, hours away. My friends meant well, but their lives…
My husband of fourteen years left me without warning — traded in our quiet, familiar life for a younger woman who made him feel powerful again. His…
I stood frozen. I couldn’t move. My mind refused to process what my eyes had already confirmed. The men stayed inside for less than ten minutes. For…
I was twelve when our mother died. The memory is still sharp—the antiseptic stinging the hospital air, the silence heavy in the hallway, and my sister standing…
When her hostile stepson cruelly rejected her offer to fund his college—spitting out, “You can’t buy your way into being my mom”—she stepped back and let him…