Due partly to circumstance, partly to choice, I am a housewife. No, it’s not what I imagined for myself. It’s not what I went to college for or dreamed of as a young girl. Cleaning up spills and brightening my whites is certainly not contributing to my Roth IRA. But for better or for worse,…
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Office Space
A few weeks ago my husband came home and spoke the words every non-working spouse dreads: “I have to work from home for a while”. I started working when I was fourteen, wearing the stink of spoiled soft serve and making blizzards you couldn’t spill at Dairy Queen for $3.25 an hour. I worked retail, did…