Full time college student, Loren Newberry, spends every night cooking for husband, Mason. Diner time is special for the both of them. “Most of the time, it's just us talking about our day, and what happened. Sometimes dinner is pretty quick for me because I get home kind of late sometimes, and then I still have a lot of homework to do, so I have to eat pretty quickly. But we always eat together, no matter what. That's our time together,” Mrs. Newberry states.
Mrs. Newberry’s mother instilled her love for cooking. “Mom always cooked. She always threw things together, which made me interested in cooking,” Newberry adds.
Newberry is not a big fan of recipes. She mainly just uses ingredients she has in the house. “I like to switch things around. I really don’t like sticking to recipes. Going with the flow is so much better. I do have to say though, I am better at cooking than baking,” Newberry says with a laugh.
Mrs. Newberry finds crockpot cooking to be the easiest way to prepare meals. “I have a couple of different crockpots. I can just throw food in the crockpot and not have to worry about it while I run errands or go to school,” Newberry states.
“It also helps that Mason will eat anything. I love to get on Pinterest and find other people’s recipes. Then, I just turn them into my own,” Newberry contends.
Newberry adds that Mason will help her prep. “He probably would help if we had a bigger kitchen. I’m a control freak when it comes to cooking,” Newberry adds.
The Newberry’s are also prominent at Parkview Methodist Church. “We're pretty involved at Parkview. Mason and his mother are members, but ever since we got together I've been treated like one, even though I'm technically still a Baptist. We help out with a lot of the activities, and we're regulars. We got married there, so we feel like it's our home away from home sort of. Everyone is so nice and welcoming there,” Newberry states.
I just recently finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I had no idea what this novel was going to be about going into it; all I knew was that our 10th grade English class study it. Right off the bat I noticed that our narrator was not your average Joe. The narrator is death. When I realized this I said to myself, "Oh this is going to be good." The novel is all about the Holocaust and it is shown from a German point of view. Leisel Meminger's mother gives her away to a foster German family. On the trip to this new family, Leisel's brother dies. So right from the start death is there. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of it, because I think you should read it for yourself. Just know that a German family hides a Jew in their basement for a while, and death is around every corner. That last line of the novel really got me though..."I am haunted by humans."
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