This afternoon I stopped in at Walmart to get something and my friend the Checkout Clerk was there. I've shared chapters with everyone I've written about in the book, whether ther were mentioned by name or not. It just seemed right to do it. The other day I gave Sandra a copy of The Cosmos and the Checkout Clerk, which I see I posted in here a while back. She was very moved by it, and wants to buy a copy of the book when it comes out. She mentioned the book again today and I told her that I'd autograph it saying, "To Sandra, the Checkout Clerk" so everyone would know that she was the one I'd written about.

Every day I see people giving of themselves in what are considered menial jobs. No job is menial unless you make it that. You can be a corporate executive with a menial job or find vbalue in bringing in shopping carts from the parking lot. It all depends on the spirit in which you do the work.

Jerry