Shannon hayes retrieves the word homemaker from being a sort of quaint yellowing doily laid in the sideboard along with frugality and simplicity and shows how radical indeed it is to take responsibility for the health of your family community and world by raising wonderful food wonderful kids and a wonderful ruckus in the face of injustice or greed she and her husband had the courage to do the math and see that a double income life was not worth living and was barely worth the mone