"One Piece at a Time"...

There’s an old Johnny Cash song - more of a novelty song, really - called One Piece at a Time, which tells the unlikely story of a man who worked for many years on a car assembly line. Since he knew he could never afford to drive one of the Cadillacs he was making, he decided to steal the car components “one piece at a time”. After 25 years, according to the last verse of the song, he ended up with this…

Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile

“One piece at a time” seems to be how I wrote the big book. Bolting ill-fitting parts together is not the recommended way to build a car or write a book, and it’s certainly been a long and bumpy ride. My number one priority, in 2023, will be to find out whether it's roadworthy...