Esther McCarthy: Every era has its own type of weirdness, and my descendants will have questions

Good Towels, cluttered shelves, and the plastic bag drawer

I found myself unnecessarily disgruntled the other evening when the youngest sashays down after his shower, wrapped in one of the Good Towels.

I was reading an interview with Mary Beard, a woman who has spent her career making the ancient feel relevant (no wonder I like her) and she posed a question. When we look at the Greeks and Romans, she said, we see their weirdness. So what are historians of the future going to find weird about us?

I am thinking about this as I stand in the kitchen, in the aftermath of a typical school morning, the destruction, the chaos, the blasted forgotten lunch bag. AGAIN.