BASHA MCDANIEL’S home gives shape to her days. In the morning, the retired cranial sacral therapist sits at one of her kitchen counters and writes, gazing over her back porch at a pond and garden she shares with neighbors. There’s enough floor space to dance or work out, or McDaniel hits the river with her kayak. If she has to clean, it only takes two hours to finish her entire house. “As a young girl, I watched my mother and her friends spend their lives taking care of houses, and I knew from a young age that I didn’t want to do that,” McDaniel said.