I'm making progress in my clean-up before Caring Lessons comes out. To encourage you writers that an end can be in sight, here's a stack of eight drafts that I printed off of my book (thousands of pages went into recycle along the way) and three five-subject spiral notebooks that I used to chronicle every …
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Marrying John Deere
In my current sort-the-stored-boxes life, I found an official note on a 5 ½” x 8 ½” sheet of slightly yellowed paper: "YOUR WEIGHT at the 1975 ILLINOIS STATE FAIR 001190 11:15AM Au 09 75 Compliments of the Department of Agriculture." So in 35 years, I've gained 35 pounds. A pound a year. A pound …