Why Homemade Matters

It's been exactly one year to the day that Miss Becky Home Ecky posted here, and I think I've found new life in the project. "Shop Class as Soulcraft" by Matthew Crawford is the breath of fresh air I needed. In his new book, he makes the case for the value of working with your hands, and he is on to something. Of course, Miss Becky Home Ecky represents the yin to his yang. Home Economics is the female side of the Industrial Arts. And it carries with it a stigma about women staying at home that the Industrial Arts never had to bear (although blue collar vs. white collar is certainly a whole different issue, one that Home Ec never had to worry her pretty little head about).

I certainly don't want to romanticize Home Ec, as Matthew Crawford sometimes does. Oh no. But I can find the humor in it.