One Day at a Time Please Author:Abbey Edward Abbey died on March 14, 1989 -- 100 years too soon, some said. "And where have the years gone?" Abbey wrote a few years ago, "why, into the usual vices of the romantic realist: into sloth and melancholy, love and marriage and the begetting of children, into the strenuous maneuvers of earning a living without living to earn, into travel ... more »and play and music and drink and talk and laughter, into saving the world -- but saving the world was only a hobby. Into watching cloud formations float across our planetary skies. But mostly into sloth and melancholy. And I don't regret a moment of it."« less