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“There’s no limit to the signs to be seen in North Idaho that prompt me to get out the camera,” posts Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho. “I didn’t want to loiter too long in front of this one, though.” Kerri didn’t say where she saw this “sign of the times.”
‘Just’ A Homemaker: The lady on the phone wanted to know what I’m doing these days since I went to school for so long. I explained that I am currently not working out of the home because I have two small children. “Oh,” she exclaimed, “I’ll put down just “homemaker” in the occupation field.” Just homemaker. The term floated out of the phone as a cartoon-like bubble and lingered in the air. It conjures such a strange stereotype that I don’t feel that I fit. I’m not offended as some women might be/MamaJD. More here.
Question: Is there any problem with being “just” a homemaker?
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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Arch_Druid on February 04 at 6:14 p.m.
Not if you have plenty of income coming into the house where you don’t need to worry about two people having to work to keep a roof over their heads, food on the table and etc.
Escapee on February 04 at 6:16 p.m.
Gosh, that’s sure a sunny and cheery sign. Sheesh. Violators will be shot? Will they be shot with a bow and arrow? Enquiring minds want to know.
JeanieSpokane on February 04 at 7:34 p.m.
“Is there any problem with being “just” a homemaker?
Uh, what a luxury I never had.
~single mother, head of household, nurse, teacher, taxi driver, curfew enforcer, confidante, counselor, fireman, life coach.
Cindy_H on February 05 at 9:04 a.m.
Jeanie! You’re a fireman???
Pecky on February 05 at 9:53 a.m.
When I left the boring “Social Sh..” that I used to live in.. one of my friends told me I would never get a fine bottle of wine in North Idaho.. “never!” -he said.. a few weeks later, I sent him a picture of Nordman Bar that showed two -beat up- pull down handles on the wall, one said “red” the other one said “white” and above the wine handles a sign that read “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, some people are alive ONLY because it is illegal to kill them”… when I e mailed that picture I added.. “come see me in Idaho sometime”… I never heard from him again. -