
Chores: expectations, accountability, and professions of love
Chores: expectations, accountability, and professions of love By Bill Stork, DVM Chores: noun. A chewy, single-syllable word, with one muddy vowel sound in the middle. Spoken by a software engineer in Chicago mowing the boulevard of his bungalow with an electric Craftsman before coaching T-ball, or a Wyoming Cowboy riding fencelines. It always comes out with a Midwest-mushmouth: “I’ll be ready to go, right after chores are done.” The word may feel like a wad of used barn shav