Then there are her ever-lengthening to-do lists, whose chores include 'clean the bath' and 'read Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and the rest'.
My Nanna lived 15 minutes away in a classic 4-story colonial townhouse overlooking the city's reservoir, and an all-girls catholic school, the latter of which I appreciated greatly as a 12 year-old whose chores included cutting the grass with a push mower just about the time Ursuline let out.
It carries everything with it: I noted cicadas and even what sounded comically like carrots being scraped, just right for a maid whose kitchen chores are unending.
From 1803 until the end of 1808 he served as Prussian envoy (Minister Resident) to the Vatican in Rome, a post whose diplomatic chores he dispatched with skill and efficiency leaving him enough time for his own work.
Those of us whose days are filled with chores and meetings may be deluding ourselves to think that we can rise as "revolutionaries-for-a-weekend" — Norman Mailer's phrase for his own bizarre foray, in 1967, as described in "The Armies of the Night".
Violence becomes so routine that journalists use a chore chart to determine whose turn it is to call in and find out the daily death toll.
Natural resource management agencies often treat public participation as a chore for attaining legitimacy whose resources might be better used for technical aspects of planning.
HighScore House, the family-focused startup whose previous app was a "gamified" chore list tracker for iPad, has today released its latest creation: FamJam.
They will be freed from the chore of reciprocal Test matches against smaller nations, whose heritage is secondary to their commercial viability.
Pottery Barn has introduced a line of ironing board covers, perhaps for those whose New Year's resolutions involve staying on top of household chores.
