Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.