Roughneck grace: farmer yoga, creeping codgerism, apple golf, and other brief essays from on and off the back forty

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"New York Times bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry returns with a new collection of bite-sized essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column, "Roughneck Grace." Perry's perspectives on everything from cleaning the chicken coop to sharing a New York City elevator with supermodels will have you snorting with laughter on one page, blinking back tears on the next, and--no matter your zip code--nodding in recognition throughout"--;Introduction -- Home -- Missing the Pigs -- Slippers -- Relativity -- Turkey in a Deer Stand -- Subzero -- Still Life with Tire Swing -- Brain Freeze -- White Pine Down -- Real Winter -- Spring Melt -- Making the Most out of Moles -- Pheasant Love -- Fixing Up the Coop -- Easter -- Deer Reunion -- Hayseed -- Bad Luck, Good Laughs -- Trimming Trees -- Mower Maintenance -- Zerk -- "Okay" -- Cat-a-Frat -- Time to Read -- Road -- Rolling Along -- Ducking Fame -- Model Behavior -- Up in the Air -- Country Boy in the City -- Road Trip -- On the Road Again -- Visiting an Old Boss -- Home Again -- Spring Color Tour -- Facts and Fanticies -- Island Life -- Creeping Codgerism -- Selfie Stick -- Imperfect -- Cold Character -- Yoga Branding -- Orthodontist -- Dishwasher -- Doorman -- Peak Walter Mitty -- Found It -- Fixing the Tubeless Tire -- Tape Measure Story -- Freelance Sniffer -- Busted -- Traffic Rap -- Old Cop, New Cop -- Court Date -- Driverless Cars -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Test -- Gotta Go Work Out -- Not a Logger -- No Better Angel -- Pitching a Fit -- Mudded Up -- Friends and Relations -- Keeping Your Head Warm -- Tio Miguel -- Jed Calling -- Class Reunion -- First Responders -- My Friend Jaime -- Gone Fishing -- The Way the Story Goes -- Mom on Book Tour -- Resurrecting Grandpa's Voice -- Revisiting Tom -- Old Way out of Town -- Godfather -- Getting Laced -- Fire Call -- Apple Golf -- Shooting the Breeze -- Sledding Party -- Appreciation -- The Blind Boys -- Working with Musicians -- Remembering Ben Logan -- Tasting Poetry -- The Least Rap-Like Cat in the House -- Meditation Squirrel -- Montaigne and Me -- The Septic Tank Guy -- Prince -- Robin's Egg Blue -- App-Happy -- Francis and the Heat Lightning -- Transcendence from the Discount Bin -- Sammi on Repeat -- With Open Ears -- The Big Blue Tent -- Baseball, Briefly -- So Long Summer -- Going for a Run -- Out in the Cold -- The Way Things Are -- Gratitude -- Acknowledgments.