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.
I returned from my business trip sooner than planned, and by sunset I understood that my marriage had ended long before I stepped through the front door….
I hated my stepmom, Janet, from the moment she entered our lives, convinced she was only there for my father’s money and that she could never understand…
The Extension Lead: A Lesson in Unseen Struggles When I found an extension lead running from my neighbor Ron’s garage into my outdoor socket, I was livid….
After thirty-eight years as a social worker, I thought I had seen the worst the world could offer. I learned to read silence, to recognize fear in…
The call came without warning. A calm voice told me, “Your daughter was in a car crash. I brought her to the ER,” and before I could…
The call came while I was volunteering at a tiny community clinic in Chicago, stacking boxes of gauze in a cramped storage room that smelled like bleach…