It took me nearly three decades to come out of my meticulously ordered closet. As a nationally shown painter, single mom, (now happily remarried) and small business owner, I was the poster child of the modern feminist. I had all the opportunity and choices and successes...and yet, I was so very rushed, and so very unhappy.
I was ignoring certain facts. The fact that making a floor shine is often as--or even more--satisfying than finishing a proposal. That roasting a turkey or rolling out a pie crust from scratch demands the same attention to detail that writing web code does. That keeping a house consistently organized, sparkling from top to bottom, and smelling of homemade chocolate chip cookies demands the organizational skills of a top CEO.
I'm all about choice--for all women. This isn't a place for women to condemn each other's paths. It is a place, however, where we honor domesticity as a crucial, difficult, and time-honored set of skills--and a valid choice.
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