Titles include: Thinking About Easter; The Dreaded Visit to the Dentist; Being a Creator; About Horses; Pre-Nostalgia; Those Agitators; Last Things; Wars and Rumors of Wars; Knowing When; The Value of the Dance; It is a Mystery to Me; Let's Pretend; About Comparing; Do the Saints Really Go Marching In?; About Being Alone; Biblical Books I Wish Someone Had Written; Oh Pioneers (2); Anticipating the Start; Names, Nicknames and Naming; The Preston Rodeo; The Law of the Harvest; The Pleasure of Slowness; The Libraries of My Life; Whipping Boys; Hearing Him Come; About Rules and Ruling; Surprise; Fire; Places; Think Twice About Cancelling Your Newspaper Subscription; What to Eat or Not to Eat, That is the Question; The Art of the Tease; How to Play; Fasting; Mother and Her Irons; Saints and Halloween; My Vanished Home Town; Thanks and Thanksgiving; Complicated People; The Great and the Greatest; A Deep Vein Never Dug; The Not So Green Grass of Home; The Vanishing Post Card; Beginnings; Is Close Enough; Forget It; About Writing; About Rugged Individualists; For Unto You is Born this Day; Cheer Leaders; Some New Years Eve Thoughts; Valentines Day; About the Honors of Men; Placing the Blame; Intriguing Folk; Second Guessing the Game of Life; About Leaving Home; Discovering I Was Really Never Poor; With Whom Do You Walk; Badges of Honor; Memorial Day; Those Dear Old Mothers; Patches; Wishing You Were Someone Else; About Forgetting; Fatherhood; Short Things; Independence Day; Some Thoughts on Diversity; Skipping Through Life; Who Did Mother Like Best?; The Art of the Protest; Not Everyone Likes Potato Salad; Is All Life Pointless; The End; What We Do Not have Just Might Not Matter; Sometimes You Gotta Talk the Talk; Last Things First; Are We Cafeteria Saints; Words Do Hurt; Happy Days; Job Switching; Life is One Surprise After Another; What if You Do Not Like Being the Boss; To Be Or?; Life's Lessons; What's Wrong With Us?; Slumbering; Things Not to Love; Some Thoughts About Bad Guys and Bad Things; Friendship; Extraordinary Things; Asking the Wrong Question; The Mutual Guide; Remembering Cache Valley: A Love Affair with a Typewriter; When All God's Singers Get Home; Those Resolutions Again