My Florida adventure was broken up in the mid-`80s by a year in Emmaus, Pennsylvania cranking out health and fitness books for Rodale Press, the publishers of Prevention magazine. I’m squeezed in here among some of Rodale’s finest. I think it was Halloween, but with this crew, it could have been just a regular day. (All those bean sprouts do strange things to one’s noggin.)

I harkened back to this period of my life to create the Pennsylvania Dutch background for the troubled movie star Rebecca Lynn Sheridan in the novel Grand Slam.