I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
“Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.”
“The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.”