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Fools%u2019 Journey536Evansville%u2014the museum and the library%u2014that failed to demonstrate what I considered common courtesy.Next, I sent an email to Amy MacLennan, the Curator at the Swope Art Museum. It%u2019s one of the real jewels in Terre Haute, and Lynn and I had visited it many times over the years. Amy emailed back right away, saying, %u201cYour work is beautiful, falls well within our collection goals, and would be a very nice addition to the permanent collection.%u201d However, there was a minor problem. Her museum was getting ready to shut down for some major construction work. They were going to add two new galleries, and some much needed collection storage space which was currently at 120% capacity. She said there was no way for them to properly process and store anything new until the work was complete%u2014in eight months. With Amy enthusiastic about my work, we agreed to get it touch again then.%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022As I had gotten older, I%u2019d become more sedentary, and had grown a bit of a gut. In college, with my five-foot, ten-inch frame, I was a skinny 130 pounds. Now I tipped the scales at 162. Lynn was still trim, the difference being that she has a well-regulated appetite, and never overeats. When she%u2019s full, she%u2019s full, and she will leave food on her plate. The opposite is also true, when she%u2019s hungry, she%u2019s hungry, and she%u2019ll get grumpy if she doesn%u2019t have a rice cake with cashew butter at two o%u2019clock every afternoon. On the handful of rare occasions when one rice cake isn%u2019t enough, she will prepare a second, although she may not eat it all. I, on the other hand, will clean my plate at every meal, even if I%u2019m full. I will also eat snacks between meals because they taste good, not because I%u2019m hungry. So, I%u2019m more likely to overeat than Lynn is.At age 75, I decided to work on the belly, so a diet and exercise seemed to be in order. I thought I%u2019d shoot for 150 pounds because losing 12 pounds seemed like a lot, yet still within reason. I started by taking smaller portions at each meal and skipping all snacks. It wasn%u2019t too hard, but I was hungry much of the time%u2014sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Doing exercises like sit-ups wasn%u2019t something