A reputation is only useful to dime novelists, boy. That rep and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee.

There is a “fore-message,” a prologue, which introduces the spiritual entities involved, followed by seven visions, and concluded by an epilogue, an “after message” which returns us to the spiritual world.

Our nanny used to live out, but now she lives with us.

In 1983, for example, the government bought 12 percent of all dairy products and stored away (presumably for a rainy, cheeseless, day) some 17 billion pounds of butter, cheese, and dried milk.