I typed my doctoral dissertationin the driveway of our oldhouse in Ohio hoping fora head start on my spring tan.I sat in a nylon-webbed lawn chairwearing my swim suit on a sunnyseventy degree afternoon.My Smith-Corona electric typewritersat on two cases of empty Stroh’slongneck beer bottles tethered by anorange extension cord to an outlet in the garage.Of course, I had a…