You have a teenager

You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate…If you don’t have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living…. [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made … Read more

My family lived off

My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days. David Mixner

We all have rosy

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. Let’s get those traditional family values back! we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don’t … Read more