If you would have told me a decade ago that I would be watching the food network, buying specialized cookbooks, and whipping up a storm in the kitchen, I would have rolled over laughing. I used to cook as a practical matter back in my 20s, making bread, trying to be macrobiotic or vegan or whatever, but that quickly gave way to studying musical scores, writing papers, and planning choral rehearsals. I even stooped so low as to go to an occasional McDonald’s in my 30s.
So, here I am.... a new house, lots of land about me, a great kitchen….and what do I want to be?….Susie Homemaker! Where did all my radical feminist training from the 70s go? I want a clean house, a good meal, and a beautiful flower garden. Is this the new feminism of the millennium? I still have my job (that I return to in 3 short months), and certainly things will change back to a more consistent frenzy. But I hope to safeguard some of the calm, happy, content, nurturing environment that has taken me a year to build.
And not go to McDonalds!!
Posted by paula at June 12, 2002 12:50 PM | TrackBack