“There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.”
“I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.”
“I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.”
“I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.”
“Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.”
“The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'”
“My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.”
“History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.”
“I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.”
“I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.”