Tag: "homemaking"

Food, Fertility, and Femininity
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Food, Fertility, and Femininity

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For most women when the buzzing alarm goes off in the morning, it isn’t because farm chores await completion and the baking of a hearty breakfast beckons. That’s someone else’s story. Instead, most likely, eyes peel open in order to face the daily grind—coffee, a commute, and a cubical. These days, there is more and […]

Sanctifying Chores without Going Bananas
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Sanctifying Chores without Going Bananas

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If bananas thrived in Alabama, my family and I would be eating banana leaves using bare hands every single meal.  Scratch that.  For all meals, we’d have bananas all day long so I can dispense with cooking. Then we’d all have to wear disposable banana leaves uniforms as clothes every single day.  Also, anyone under […]

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Saint Zita in My Kitchen

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Although many Catholics are devoted to a particular patron saint, I rely on the intercession of quite a few heavenly intercessors.  Naturally the Blessed Mother tops the list, but St. Joseph assists my military family in selling houses and finding new ones, St. Christopher safeguards us on our frequent travels, and St. Anthony helps us […]