Update: A Housewife Writes, Vol. 1 is now also available in paperback. We’d like to announce that our book, A Housewife Writes: What Our Grandmothers Can Teach Us About Making a Home, is now available. The book is a compilation of 48 excerpts, written by ordinary, everyday women of the early 1900s. Through their writings, they share glimpses of their…

Have you ever considered that hard work and happiness typically go together? Laurie and I are putting the finishing touches on our first joint book, which will be available later this month. (Update: It’s released now! Click here to get your own copy.) It’s called A Housewife Writes: What Our Grandmothers Can Teach Us About Making a Home. It’s a…

The silence that I was always compelled to fill up has become beautiful to me, as well. I’ve become accustomed to being quiet with my own thoughts, and now–especially when I do chores such as washing the dishes–I can be centered and meditative in a way I never could be when I was either listening to talk radio or had…

Do you have a homemaking specialty? You have interests that lie in a certain direction and by default, you’re probably naturally skilled in that interest. Why not expand beyond your natural skill and cultivate it and make it something that you excel in? No woman can excel in every particular. If she takes the lead in one branch of industry,…