Skip to content
the relaxed housekeeper

the relaxed housekeeper

And Other Stories

  • About
  • Microwave Madam
  • Poems
  • Print a Poem
  • Essays
  • Writings at anitaelise.com
  • Contact me

Tag Archives: Writing

My Clothes Have Shrunk

My clothes have shrunk
No – I do not lie!
It’s not all that cake and apple pie…

Posted byAnitaeliseMay 2, 2022May 2, 2022Posted inPoemsTags:blogging, fashion, Humour, Life, poetry, Writing4 Comments on My Clothes Have Shrunk

A Lazy Day

So long Ma, and thanks for all the fish! No cooking tonight – there’s lots of food in the fridge.

Posted byAnitaeliseDecember 7, 2021December 10, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:Family, Happiness, mothers, poetry, Relaxed Housekeeping, Writing2 Comments on A Lazy Day

Book Review – Hours with Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh

Book Review – Shrayana Bhattacharya takes one on a journey, weaving the lives of real women into the socio-economic fabric of the India they live in.

Posted byAnitaeliseNovember 19, 2021December 28, 2021Posted inEssaysTags:Bollywood, Book reviews, India, Patriarchy, Social Change, Women, Writing3 Comments on Book Review – Hours with Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh

To Be A Better Wife

To be a better wife I need a husband who’s here…

The lyrics of ‘To Be A Better Wife’ are written to the music of Here There and Everywhere – a song composed and written by the Beatles. I wrote this during the lockdown of 2020.

Posted byAnitaeliseOctober 11, 2021October 11, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:Gender roles, Lockdow, Music, Parody, poetry, Writing4 Comments on To Be A Better Wife

After

Peaceful quiet
And time to BE and LET BE
Some togetherness and rest after a good meal.

#3LineTales

Posted byAnitaeliseSeptember 12, 2021September 12, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:3LineTales, poetry, Writing3 Comments on After

Hate Costs

Hate
it costs
we all pay.

Posted byAnitaeliseAugust 15, 2021August 27, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:August Scavenger Hunt, Hate, Hay(na)ku, poetry, Writing2 Comments on Hate Costs

Conditioning and Ways

Becoming Microwave Madam Chapter 1 – She didn’t realize she’d been conditioned to think a certain way. That he too, like her, had been conditioned by social and cultural expectations, as one often just looks at them as the norm.

Posted byAnitaeliseJune 24, 2021July 20, 2021Posted inBecoming Microwave MadamTags:Essays, Fiction, Gender roles, Patriarchy, Stories, Women, Writing7 Comments on Conditioning and Ways

Search

Copyright Notice

Creative Commons License
The Relaxed Housekeeper by Anita Elise Kohli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at sayselizaATgmail.com.

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 143 other followers

Follow the relaxed housekeeper on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • I Won’t Be A Victim
  • My Clothes Have Shrunk
  • Solutions – Moving On From Anxiety
  • Holding On To Self
  • The Chief Picker-Upper & Fetcher of Things
  • Unbroken
  • Practising Sovereignty
  • Lonely
  • Book Review – Lessons from Marie Kondo
  • Don’t Let Go

Top Posts & Pages

  • After
  • The Knight | Change the Woman to Change the Man
  • Femininity ALWAYS Comes With Strings | Dr Google
  • Home Organization | How To Be A Relaxed Housekeeper
  • The Mother Wound | This Gift
  • I Could Look At You In Envy
  • Men-OH-Pause
  • Equality at Home | A Wonderful Woman
  • The New Woman | Paint the Town RED
  • Expectations of Love | Wanna
  • Home
  • All Posts
  • Contact me
the relaxed housekeeper, Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • the relaxed housekeeper
    • Join 143 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • the relaxed housekeeper
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar