The Place to Take a Humor Break
Cats living with humans dates back over 10,000 years. But in all that time, there is not a single documented case of a cat ever thanking its human cohabitant. In ancient Egypt, people worshipped cats […]
I hate to do laundry. Laundry is worse than scrubbing the toilet, cleaning the cat’s litter box, and mopping the floor with a toothbrush, among the world’s most distasteful tasks. I’d rather be tied to […]
Those who read the first installment in my instruction series on avoiding housework already know that I have a love-hate relationship with chores, mostly hate. My first chapter had to do with avoiding cleaning the […]
I have a simple relationship with housework. I don’t like it and it doesn’t like me. Take my floor, for instance. When I look at it (which I try not to do any more than […]
Don’t believe me? Then maybe you’ll believe a study which concluded that marriages where the women do all the housework while the men retreat to the parlor to smoke cigars, read the newspaper and discuss […]
My Mom and my Grandma made valiant attempts to domesticate me when I was a kid back in the 50s and early 60s. They were worried because I was a tomboy. I was not above […]
Eve didn’t know how good she had it there in the Garden of Eden. She and Adam didn’t live in a house, so she never had to clean. They ate with their hands, so there […]
Ever since the first humans learned to walk upright, housework has been relegated to women. While the men were out hunting, fighting the tribe from the other side of the hill, getting themselves killed and […]
