Why I No Longer Care About Being a Domestic Goddess

I used to cook to impress. Now I just want to eat with my friends.

Nicole Peeler
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readFeb 10, 2020

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Photo: Citrus and Candy/Flickr

WWritten next to “bûche de noël,” the traditional French confectionary known as a Yule log, were two names: mine, and a classmate’s, Krista. Our names were listed because our mothers had signed up to make the same dessert for our middle school’s inaugural Foreign…

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Nicole Peeler
Human Parts

Novelist and essayist. Director of the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. Find out more at http://nicolepeeler.com.