Quoted: The Newbery Medal has been the gold standard in children's literature for more than eight decades. On the January day when the annual winner is announced, bookstores nationwide sell out, libraries clamor for copies and teachers add the work to lesson plans.

Quoted: All you need is a stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons.

Quoted: Who is the Real 'Dumbest Generation'? Hint: They're not today's youth ... and they're now taking over as America's leaders

Quoted: As demand for sushi threatens bluefin tuna with extinction, governments adopt quotas and activists threaten a boycott,

Uhoh.

Quoted: In this modest but enthusiastic addition to the Pig Lit canon, John Barlow recounts a year spent in Spain trying to eat every possible part of the pig.

Pig is now quite trendy, apparently.

Breakfast is very important.

Quoted: Serving breakfast in the classroom rather than the cafeteria appears to remove the stigma attached to schoolchildren who qualify for low-income meals.

Quoted: Who hasn't looked at his or her paycheck and imagined how much better life would be with a lot more numbers after that dollar sign?

Bah, not one of those jobs are jobs that appeal to me. Bah!

I tried fitting myself and my family into these patterns, but it didn't take in any case.