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The ladies at Genesis Health Club’s 8 a.m. pilates conditioning class were entirely unexpected. Along with my older brother and his wife, I had smugly agreed to attend with my 69-year-old-mother, who is still in better shape than most college co-eds prancing around in barely-there shorts. And to the best of my childhood memory, she had always been the exception.

I’m pitching a can’t-miss book proposal that will net millions the world over. And I promise to give most of my share to our grandchildren. After I buy a villa in Cannes.

Through a window of real stories, Minnesota author Mary Farr’s fifth book, Don’t Postpone Joy, invites readers to walk with her on the holy ground of shared experiences.

This may sound like a shameful admission — and it would be if I had any shame — but my body hadn't been cleaned, my top scrubbed and my rear end buffed in more than a year.

Monarch butterflies are the poster children, the ambassadors, for insects.