How cooking for yourself can make you healthier, happier

As my great-aunt June used to tell me, "Your grandfather was a bum. Your father was a bum, and you're a bum. Get outta my house!" Reading between the lines, what I think she was trying to say, in her own, frothing fashion, was, "Don't let the good be the enemy of the perfect."

(You got that, too, right?)

In other words, Auntie June was reminding me that, when it comes to self-improvement, don't stop trying just because you can't achieve 100 percent of your goals. After all, Lord willin' and the crik don't rise and Kim Jong Un don't drop no nucular bombs