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Sitting on the front verandah of his modest weatherboard cottage in the sun, looking out over a blaze of daffodils, describing in his even, unhurried voice the eating habits of crows and the swallows' nests under the eaves, Bob Brown is in his element. After buying this spectacularly beautiful piece of land at Liffey, in central Tasmania, in 1973, Brown lived here for a decade, choosing to do without phone or hot water, cooking in pots on the open fire, and cycling 100 km every weekend to work shifts as a general practitioner in Launceston...
...book bags and blankets--housekeeping is no sweat for Janet Nelson, 35. And though the mother of two works as a public relations manager for the Maid Services Company, the second largest maid service franchise in the nation, she doesn't have a maid. Instead, she has her husband Bob. With Janet telecommuting three...
days a week from her home in rural Iowa and traveling to Omaha, Neb., the other two days, Bob stays home to care for the kids and do the cleaning. For the past eight years he has scrubbed the floors, done the laundry and cooked dinner. "So many of my friends complain about their husbands not contributing to housework," Janet says. "But my job is to work five days a week, and Bob does just about everything else. I'm very spoiled...
Janet wasn't always so lucky. When she and Bob escaped the big city in 1996 in order to raise their children in the country, they agreed that one of them should stay home. Because her firm allowed telecommuting, Janet opted to keep her job. At first Bob had to be coaxed into housework. Janet would make him lists of chores, but that didn't go over well. "I felt like a dictator. Bob would tense up every time I told him what to do," she recalls. "He would see me around the house...
...first to admit that our Hebrew is far from fluent: much of the Gates of Repentance prayerbook remains a mystery to us. We glance around quizzically at our more devout brethren during services—what is the thing when they bend their knees and bob their heads? But we can recall a select few prayers from our B’Nai Mitzvot and the other five services our parents made us attend. In counting the pages remaining until the closing song, we make note of the approaching sections in which we can participate—oases of recognition...