“While a toaster, in itself, is a small thing, choosing one took a whole lot out of me.”

“After an awkward moment during which I had to ask the salesclerk to please pry my fingers off my debit card, I bought a sewing machine.”

“My obsession, this month, was to make an aesthetically pleasing, if useless, piece of cloth to lay on the kitchen table for a few weeks.”

“I wasn’t a poor loser without a working refrigerator; I was a cultured woman who demanded only the freshest food.”

“It never ends.”

“When I said I didn’t want to grow any vegetables this year, I failed to anticipate the upshot; namely, I don’t have any vegetables.”