How to use this Substack
It's not as random as it seems!
Welcome to the School for Housewives! Are you new? Or not sure how it works?
Most days I send out a short message to help the housewife be at home. My hope is to help women recover from feminism by finding the true purpose and meaning of the vocation of the homemaker.
The message will comprise a point that occurs to me at the moment, or be part of a little series. I usually do a voiceover for each post, though this week I am visiting my daughter in Texas and so am not able to do it.
My method is to circle back through all the topics, while also developing them. So if you’re new, you’re coming in “in the middle” — but it always was “the middle”!
In fact, I started the whole thing here with sourdough methods, as if we were in the middle of a conversation about how to make it!
If you go to the main page of The School for Housewives, you will see categories up at the top. Clicking on one of those will show you the posts in that category. And all the posts are arranged there as well.
This navigation method is trickier using the Substack app or your mobile. I’m not sure why, other than that Substack is a bit clunky, usability-wise.
If you click on a link within a post, it takes you to a page with those categories on the top, though, so maybe that helps.
All the content is available to everyone. Subscribing (free) gets the posts into your email if you don’t want to miss any. A paid subscription give you the ability to comment and to post in the chat, which I try to hold for an hour or more, once a week or fortnight. Paying also enables you to support me so I can hire tech support and pay for the hosting of Like Mother, Like Daughter.
Every post has info at the bottom of it as to how to subscribe, share, and access my other resources, which include my other blog where I post long, chatty posts and have been for a long time, and my books. My book The Summa Domestica is three volumes that hash out all the topics here at great length and in an organized way! It even has an index and ribbon bookmarks!
I also have another Substack where I post the podcast I do with my husband, noted Catholic journalist Phil Lawler, and other essays and thoughts that occur to me: Happy Despite Them.
I’m so glad you are here!
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My book on how to live with the Liturgical Year: The Little Oratory
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top.
For the longer version:
As with everything here at the SFH, the best thing is for you to take my ideas, coming from my experience of 45 years of marriage and raising seven children, and apply them to your situation with discernment, prudence, and confidence — and a sense of humor!