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Not on the road

Here are some people from the early days of People. The guy who promoted me, the guy who succeeded me, the guy who amused me, the woman who intrigued me and the guy I brought on board--who is the only...

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what's in the truck?

Let the games begin! This spring, we will have three exciting rounds of "What's In the Truck!" The first commences in about an hour. There is one item that no one will guess. Well, possibly the...

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what's in the truck 2

I'll give you a hint: One of my neighbors gave me a going away present of a hunk of uncooked corn beef.I kind of disagree with the notion of my being a packrat. More like a crow who flies around...

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note to competitors

This extremely close first round of What's in the Truck! will not be adjudicated until I actually manage to offload everything—tomorrow or the next day. It is sleeting changing to snow today. Yes, in...

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WITT : the competitors

Note: A pair of ratty hot pads, one water pik broken in transit, a toilet paper holder destined for the trash, an end of an artisenal (sp?) salami brought to NYC from Marin County, and Smoking Baby!

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and the winners

Who knew there was such an item?The first round of this year's What's in the Truck? contest has been decided. Was there ever any doubt? Dada wins. Though he did mess up on the bananas. His prize:...

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on reading biographies

So do biographies by definition have depressing endings?How about autobiographies?I only wonder on account of dreading the last chapters of Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.

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bear's yard

The car on the left is Bear's latest ride, and the one he uses. He bought the two-tone Chevy for the  body but seems unsure of the engine. He has hit three deer in the red pickup, and it's pretty much...

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nextdoor neighbors

You've met Bear. Now meet Trevor and Treyton, kind of the other end of the spectrum, who have lived in the rent house next door since, Treyton informs me, he was in third grade (he's in sixth now). Oh,...

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by any name

Bear calls them bluebells; I call them grape hyacinths. Whatever, they're practically the only game in town this Easter.

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can you follow this?

I'm not big on putting my personal business in this blog, but. . .So last week, my ex husband stayed at the New York apartment (which used to be his and is now mine) on Monday, I think. (I'm not...

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ozark sunrise

From my bedroom window yesterday.

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the road home

The road home is always quicker. And the closer you get, the more you seem to pick up speed.

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monetize that road

Hannah's got a business consulting to people in business who have no business sense—mostly artists and other creatives! You can pay her by the hour to plot out your life and money, or you can take such...

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this old couch

Many of you have sat (sitted? why do some past tenses just sound awk?) on this loveseat. It lives in New York. However, as you may be able to see in the pic, it has deteriorated since I last covered...

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more morning light

Like most of the rest of the country, the Ozarks have been whipsawed between frost on the pumpkin and sunburn on the arms. Which makes for a lovely morning mist on the water. Later in the day, what...

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gals with guns

CBA (right) with Stella and their Alaskan trapper mentor @1970Madison, champion shooter of the riflery club, April 2013 Many of you know how anti-gun I am. Let me clarify that I am not opposed to the...

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sucking the river dry

Firetrucks were filling up with river water until late last night. Must've been quite a blaze—this is the season when folks burn branches and catch fields on fire. Don't know where it was yet—I'm done...

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spring river

You too could own this river frontage and 50 acres for about $120,000. It's a couple miles downstream from Mammoth Spring, Ark., which produces almost 10 million gallons of water an hour to become...

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local color

I have a thing for disused gas stations. The weeds growing through cracks in the pavement. The broken windows. And, of course, the junk trucks. There are a lot of dead convenience stores around here....

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