As my mother explained, nobody likes chores.  Nobody is interested in cleaning the kitchen, or emptying the garbage, or scrubbing the toilet.  And yet, parents always seem to have clean houses.  The kitchen is clean, the garbage emptied, and the toilet scrubbed.  They come over to our apartments, we clean and pretend that we’ve been doing it all along, and once they leave, the toilet brush feels like it’s been dumped. Continue reading →