Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
food comforting forgotten
There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.
sound recipes devotion
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.
responsibility ideas waiting
Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.
finding-yourself one-day may
You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.
thinking way trouble
it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.
wall thinking mirrors
I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.
sunshine people upset
How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.
learning experience way
But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.
simple facts life-is
Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.
wife done cold
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.
memorable cutting two
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
long illusion practicals
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
easier companion
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
hate feet cooking
You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.