Comments on: Wait, Why Is Canning Your Own Jam Suddenly ‘Cool’?

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:27:33 +0000

I don’t know why it’s considered “cool” but I can understand why so many women are less focused on their careers these days. I spent my 20s going to grad school, pursuing a career, stressed out, unbalanced, with hardly any energy left for church life/friendships/hobbies. I put my husband through seminary and PhD work, became a Mom, and then finally ended up as a SAHM in a college town with a house and a garden. And I could finally really breathe, and feel balanced, and pursue new hobbies, and have people over, and cook and garden. It felt right, like I was finally doing what I was really wired to do. Mothering fulfilled me in a way that my career didn’t, and although I often longed for more time to myself, I never missed the workplace. To me, it simply makes sense to “sequence” and to focus on different things at different stages of life. I can understand that some women just really want/need to work, and I hope they can also respect that for some women, being at home is a great fit for their energies and inclinations.

By: Rachel Marie Stone

Rachel Marie Stone — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:37:41 +0000

Ha, ha, yes!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:57:27 +0000

So’s my short haircut. Now I’m waiting for my satin print disco shirt to make a come-back.

By: dad

dad — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:45:41 +0000

PS: You realize of course that your grandmother would have loved your domesticity, precisely because it is the subject of books and is now “cool.”

By: dad

dad — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:32:14 +0000

I can’t answer this; I’m still trying to figure out how the hated black plastic G.I. issue eyeglass frames of my youth are now “hipster” and cost a couple of hundred bucks…