This is a little self-help book for those who want to improve their everyday written English. It does not give much space to spoken English or rules for correct usage. Grammar is presented only as it affects sentence construction. Focus is on the achievement of sentence variety and on ways to avoid overloading, ambiguity, wordiness, fragmentation, and run-ons.

Still writing at the age of 95, Professor Mildred M. Jeffrey selected 55 of her poems to relive meaningful experiences. Wide-ranging, feisty, and occasionally revolutionary, she gives the reader plenty to think about.

A sometimes hilarious three-generational clash, of values plays out in REJOICE, a novel about a conventional mother, an uncompromising hippie daughter, and a devil-may-care granddaughter raised in an idealistic commune. The mother finally details her struggle in a memoir which she pays her granddaughter to tout on a do-it-yourself book tour. The granddaughter is less interested in the book than she is in her' gypsy hippie encounters with the pony-tailed know-it-all who is pursuing her. Soon her casual attitude toward life is put to the test when she falls in love with the dutiful son of a straight-laced Mexican widow. Do we hear wedding bells or fire sirens in the distance?

A sometimes hilarious three-generational clash, of values plays out in REJOICE, a novel about a conventional mother, an uncompromising hippie daughter, and a devil-may-care granddaughter raised in an idealistic commune. The mother finally details her struggle in a memoir which she pays her granddaughter to tout on a do-it-yourself book tour. The granddaughter is less interested in the book than she is in her' gypsy hippie encounters with the pony-tailed know-it-all who is pursuing her. Soon her casual attitude toward life is put to the test when she falls in love with the dutiful son of a straight-laced Mexican widow. Do we hear wedding bells or fire sirens in the distance?

When Mary Catherine, the only child of old-fashioned parents, becomes a teacher in a ghetto school, she and her family will never be the same. New ideas and new relationships lead to trouble at home as well as on the job. Since the year is 1953, her struggle to adapt to change plays out against a daily barrage of headlines about a Soviet H-bomb and the long reach of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Red witch hunt. The two colleagues who offer support each prove to be threat to her peace of mind. The discovery of her father's double life and the demands of her own increasing sexuality finally drive her to a painful decision.

When Mary Catherine, the only child of old-fashioned parents, becomes a teacher in a ghetto school, she and her family will never be the same. New ideas and new relationships lead to trouble at home as well as on the job. Since the year is 1953, her struggle to adapt to change plays out against a daily barrage of headlines about a Soviet H-bomb and the long reach of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Red witch hunt. The two colleagues who offer support each prove to be threat to her peace of mind. The discovery of her father's double life and the demands of her own increasing sexuality finally drive her to a painful decision.