by Danielle | Feb 2, 2011 | Blog, Homemaking, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane
Inferiority is relative. It needs something or someone else to be compared to. A sense of inferiority arises from comparing ourselves to someone else, someone supposedly superior. Why do we do that? Is it helpful? Very often, it isn’t but it can be automatic and...
by Danielle | Oct 24, 2010 | Blog, Homemaking, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane
“Is this it?” “Is this what my life has come to?” “I’ve got so much more to offer.” Sound familiar? If your life is consumed by housework, no wonder you feel superior – of course you have more to offer! I don’t believe that any woman on the planet has...
by Danielle | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog, Family, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane
As a person, it is irritating when people don’t do their fair share, but if you are at all feminist, it’s much more complicated. There are principles at stake. There is often the unspoken question: is it being left to me because I am the female? This incurs a wrath...
by Danielle | Nov 9, 2009 | Blog, Cleaning, Homemaking, Staying sane
Could it be true? (again) Now I am a self-confessed Undomestic Goddess. I am not naturally inclined to clean and tidy. I am a million miles away from the Perfect Housewife. And yet… The other day, I had a few precious minutes of un-spoken-for time on my hands...
by Danielle | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog, Clutter, Homemaking, Staying sane
Let’s play Spot the Difference. Woman A arrives home. She hangs up her coat, bag and keys. She looks around her tidy home, smiles and decides she’s got time to relax in her beautiful sitting room with a cuppa and a magazine. A flustered Woman B heaves the door open,...