By Katharine Trauger of Home’s Cool! and The Conquering Mom

Katharine Trauger is a retired educator and a women’s counselor. She and her husband spent 25 years running a home and school for children who would otherwise have been homeless. She has worked 15 years as contributor and/or columnist for several small professional magazines, with over 60 published articles. She blogs about the rising popularity of being at home from a sun room on a wooded hilltop in the Deep South at: Home’s Cool! and The Conquering Mom, and tweets at @KathaTrau. She is currently working on a self-help book entitled: Yes, It Hurts, But . . .