I cohosted a party, and one of the things I brought was frozen meatballs. I was planning, of course, to make them from scratch. But it was too much for me, too much time and energy I don’t have at this time of the year. And, of course, no one cared. That’s the lesson in this for people like me who sometimes get wound up about doing things perfectly: 90 percent of the people in your life won’t know the difference between, say, fresh and frozen, or handmade and store-bought, and the 10 percent who do notice are just as stressed-out as you are, and your willingness to choose simplicity just might
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