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…

Letter 1, 1937– It seems I am never with some of my married friends–girls my own age as well as those of the older generation–but they are complaining about their husbands, or criticizing them, one way or another. Perhaps you would not call that a lack of loyalty, but I feel that it is. I have been with these same…

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…