Master, Monster, Martha

Even after everything, should we be more like her?

A single thought kept repeating in my brain while I watched the new Martha Stewart documentary on Netflix last week, and I’m still wrestling with it.

There are so many ways to examine the phenomenon of Martha. For one thing, she was an undisputed master of the domestic sphere. The world couldn’t get enough of her back in her heyday, but she was repugnant…