With the children all gone and with our allergies, we have been petless since. But the quality of experiences we had with these pets may account in large part for the children's lifestyles now.

Toujours Perdrix ! That's loving to satiety– There is no fun in life without variety !

But it wasn’t until he invented the cronut — a croissant/doughnut hybrid — after striking out on his own, that he ascended to star status. Time magazine called it one of the best inventions of 2013, and it birthed several other hybrid pastries including the bruffin (brioche/muffin), the duffin (doughnut/muffin) and the scuffin (scone/muffin).

Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.