I’ve learned these words to be true:

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

Words of wisdom can hurt sometimes. We have to live and learn. And move on.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal
neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth
but himself.

Frances Trollope

The best answer to anger is silence.

Author Unknown

It’s a woman thing, too.

“If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.”

~Jack Handey

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

~H.M. Tomlinson

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Julia Child

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher