Sentences with phrase «own kitchen table»

While my family gathered around the kitchen table to enjoy a lovely Christmas meal and engage in meaningful conversation, I was disengaged.

To compensate for limited counter space, I have to sit down at our kitchen table to prep any food, and it's just far enough away from the stovetop to mean some food might fall off the cutting board and onto the ground en route.

The dream, like Wendy's, often begins with a laptop, a kitchen table, and a spark that can no longer be ignored.

Finally, the possibility of starting your business from the desk in your dorm or at your parents» kitchen table may be best, partly because your overhead would be very low.

When she first became an entrepreneur, she was serving accounting clients from her kitchen table, working part time.

Face it: You can only box orders on your kitchen table for so long.

How many times have you gotten a good night's sleep on your kitchen table?

Grom Social started as a family project with my brothers and sister around the kitchen table.

«Whether we are watching someone at their kitchen table doing their tax return, or watching someone do payroll or taxes in their office, follow me home is a critical way we learn about how our platforms are used,» Williams tells Business Insider.

All of them have open - air layouts and room for collaboration, including a long kitchen table for eating together.

In short, positive fantasies about the future are as essential to the start - up mythos as late nights, ramen noodles, and working from your garage / dorm room / kitchen table.

Playing weekend golf and dining or meeting Saturday mornings around the kitchen table in my Connecticut home for an informal work session was all part of the GE / NBC protocol.

One morning, after he woke — or maybe he was still up, he can't recall — he sat at the kitchen table and wrote «MyPillow» over and over until he'd sketched the rough logo for a product that didn't exist.

Bowerman had dug up $ 500 to finance half of Knight's tailgate inventory, and used to spend his evenings at a kitchen table tinkering with the imported sneaks, a stitch here, a little more padding there, anything to squeeze out a few more seconds for future Olympians.

It wasn't an obscure IT term like DaaS that was on Paul Davis's mind when he spread out the fliers on his kitchen table in 2004.

Imagine telling someone to lay a metallic sheet permanently across their couch or to affix a shiny panel to their kitchen table?

Another downside: When my roommate walked in and saw a miniature bed sitting on our kitchen table, she laughed out loud at it, which has been the dominant reaction to the Phone Bed so far.

When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

You may find yourself working from a regular desk, the kitchen table, the couch, or perhaps even in bed.

Crowley told the crowd: «When we were around the kitchen table building this product and looking for funding, we didn't know what investors want to hear at a pitch, and there was no shame asking for help.

Lightning strikes... My career took off when Jeff Bezos personally hired me to handle the publicity and linking for Amazon.com's launch, which I did from my kitchen table on a dial - up modem.

Apple executives offered colorful detail, like the way its designers cook up new products around a kitchen table at the company's headquarters.

My personal triggers are my to - do list, water or tea, and the kitchen table or an office for admin tasks and my desk or isolated outdoor spots with limited Wi - Fi (it frees me from browsing the internet) for creative work, prompting me to get in the zone.

The NDP and Mulcair have for years been trumpeting the struggles of average families, often talking about the «kitchen table» issues affecting Canadians.

Ross dolled up friends at her kitchen table in South Baltimore, but she never considered trading in her stable teaching job at a city school and, later, the Community...

«Ignoring the border wall and the conversation around immigration that's taking place in the media and at every kitchen table in America just didn't seem right,» Schapiro said.

Imagine earning extra income in your spare time, or «on the road,» or even while you work from your kitchen table.

«To help Canadians save this Easter, we have been working hard to offer our customers excellent value on the grocery items we traditionally find on our kitchen tables at this time of the year,» said Michele Hardinge, senior vice president of Merchandising, Fresh Food at Walmart Canada.

But when you run a business from your kitchen table, a back bedroom, or even «on the road» as your travel, you can greatly reduce the downside risk and expense.

At university even the evangelicals were at it — one on the kitchen table as I remember and not with her current boyfriend.

As I write, they sit across the kitchen table from me, in all their innocence and little - girl perfection, eating chocolate cake, chatting purposefully about what game they will play next, blissfully unaware of the things that divide their mothers.

Sometimes sitting at the kitchen table, drinking afternoon tea, she would let me turn her hand over to examine her palm, tracing the lines that crisscrossed it with my index finger, as if I were a boy swami pulled from the pages of a Rudyard Kipling poem.

I've tried to imagine how it would feel: to be sitting at my kitchen table with my children at suppertime when That Government Knock finally comes to the door.

These are the days when I light a candle, even (or maybe especially) in the chaos and noise of family life because Brian is home from his travels and I have a buttoned - up Easter lily on my kitchen table.

I believe in kitchen tables and piles of books.

I love the sparkle of Christmas but I also need the quiet light of a candle on my old kitchen table to illuminate my faith.

In fact, it's more like the unholy mess spread across my kitchen table on a cold and rainy Palm Sunday afternoon.

It's been more than thirty years since Jesus turned everything right - side - up for my folks and I felt the weight of that choice at the table that night, watching all this little kid crew, another generation, all perched around my kitchen table by the light of candles in the darkness, telling us grown - ups all the things we already knew about Jesus.

And something tells me we would all be a little more careful, a little more gentle, if we knew how long our words linger in one another's lives, if we imagined those words sitting on one another's kitchen tables, shaped like foxes.

Whether standing over the piano mercilessly coaxing a budding prodigy or arguing at the kitchen table over how many green beans are enough, these mothers gave their kids something to live for, strive for, react against; struggle with and grow away from.

Her parents left the table, seated atramp at the kitchen table, and personally served him a fine meal on china plates.

In praise of quietly reading Scripture at the kitchen table with crumbs under my feet and of listening to my children sing their songs to Jesus when they think I'm not listening.

I wrote my first two books there, scribbling at the kitchen table and typing on the floor of the main floor bathroom with one eye on a tiny in the tub.

Sometimes what we believe in church or Bible study or at our friend's kitchen table, we forget alone in our bedroom.

I have done 99 % of my writing at the kitchen table or a noisy coffee shop or the public library.

Stirred into wakefulness, King made a pot of coffee and sat down at the kitchen table.

With his head now buried in his hands, King bowed over the kitchen table and prayed aloud.

Sitting at his kitchen table sipping the coffee, King's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden notion that at once intensified his desperation and clarified his options.

So Paloma, the protagonist, realizes that Renée is a kindred spirit when she discovers a philosophical treatise accidentally left on the kitchen table.

Letty Russell has described the importance of «kitchen table» theology, which begins with the faith stories of ordinary women grouped around kitchen tables or in other everyday settings.