Best of homeculture

A few of my favorite pieces

I grew up in a church led by a prophet: If I followed him, my family would stay together forever

My friend's life was ruined* by a Magnolia Network Home Makeover. *made worse for quite awhile

Left Behind: I've been thinking about the things children leave behind.

I've Slept with my Baby Blankie for 36 Years: I could be embarrassed about my baby blanket. Instead, I'll tell you everything it's taught me.

By Design : White communists, socialists, feminists, and capitalists tried to engineer society using kitchen design.

The Starts and Ends of Creation: As the tide rises, the effectiveness of my ADHD medication descends.

Tree of Life: Americans are refusing vaccines because they've forgotten that children dying of infectious disease is natural.

Mommies of Instagram: They weren't being paid for care work, they were being paid for their online depiction of care work. 

The Colonoscopy + The Couple: There is no ladylike way to say, “Sometimes I bleed from my butt.”

A Crowded Table: I own the table of my dreams because someone was desperate.

A Defense of the Common House Spider: Spiders and women often get blamed for simply being around.

An American Shame: Why was I embarrassed to tell people I rented my home?

Power Grids Are Failing All Over America: Profit, power, preconceived notions. For these things we let dreaming children die.

Miscarriage in the Home: I finished my miscarriage on the toilet. We don't talk about what happens in women's bodies or bathrooms.

A Concise Chronicle of a Woman Who Cried at Home: What has crying in the home looked like over the centuries?