I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.
A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!
I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.
I keep everything fans give me, if I can, but I do worry about when I run out of room in my house!
We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be, As if the story of a house Were told or ever could be.
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.
