God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of th… - Phyllis McGinley

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Ah, snug lie those that slumber </br> Beneath Conviction’s roof. </br> Their floors are sturdy lumber, </br> Their windows weatherproof. </br> But I sleep cold forever, </br> And cold sleep all my kind, </br> For I was born to shiver </br> In the draft from an open mind.

Compromise? Of course we compromise. But compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy and Spruce Manor the pleasant place it is.