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John McGee grew up fascinated with trucks. He played with trucks and envisioned himself being in the trucking industry. In 1985, McGee began driving for Schwan’s delivering ice cream and from that moment knew he wanted to drive. Then when an opportunity to buy a truck and begin hauling logs opened in 1991, he grabbed it.

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have a number of health challenges that I have been dealing with for a few years. Nobody in my life really knows about them. I take my medication. I stay in touch with my doctors, but in the past year I haven’t been exercising or doing the physical maintenance work that I promised to do.

At Christmas in 1969, I was four years old, with five brothers (two sisters would come a few years later) and living the best life on Adelaide Street in Natchitoches. The season brought to our family lots of Christmas baking, car rides at night to look at yards decorated for four-year-old feasting eyes, and – the most anticipated activity – the family gathering for the CBS presentation of “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.”