Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section i If We're Not Having Fun, We Must Be Doing Something Wrong
Chapter 1 How to Make a Moose Run
Chapter 2 Thanksgiving and the Whoopee Cushion
Chapter 3 How Not to Eat a Tootsie Roll Pop
Chapter 4 The Scorpion and the Striptease
Chapter 5 The Deer Hunters
Chapter 6 How to Ruin a Pair of Tennis Shoes
Chapter 7 Catch and Release--the Ones that Got Away
Chapter 8 A Graveyard Tale for the Gullible
Chapter 9 Making Allowances
Section ii You Don't Have to Compete for Love
Chapter 10 Between His Shoulders
Chapter 11 Biological Impossibilities
Chapter 12 I Knew You'd Remember
Chapter 13 Swimming on Daddy's Back
Chapter 14 A Love for the Floor
Chapter 15 The Keys to Everything
Chapter 16 Scrambled Eggs and Cold Feet
Chapter 17 Hugs
Section iii A Teachable Heart Begins in the Teacher
Chapter 18 My First Tree House
Chapter 19 The Finer Points of the Game
Chapter 20 Working for Dad
Chapter 21 My First Car and a Better Mousetrap
Chapter 22 Jackpot
Chapter 23 From Sparrow to Bluebird on a Grapevine
Chapter 24 Musically Challenged
Chapter 25 Playing at My Level
Chapter 26 The Double-Clutch Tractor and the Pickup Truck
Section iv How You See What You See Makes All the Difference
Chapter 27 Little Red
Chapter 28 Mary's Lake and Never-Summer-Land
Chapter 29 Real Indians Don't Wear Underwear
Chapter 30 Why the Deer Crossed the Road
Chapter 31 Toddle House and the Newspaper Boy
Chapter 32 The Graveyard Romantic
Chapter 33 The Smell of a Shirt
Section v You Don't Have to Survive in Order to Succeed
Chapter 34 Errol Flynn Wannabees and the Wooden Pointers
Chapter 35 The Day I Ran Away and How Far I Got
Chapter 36 If You Can't Fall, You'll Never Learn
Chapter 37 A Reason to Cry
Chapter 38 The Third Wolf Cry
Chapter 39 You Can't Ride a Polaroid
Chapter 40 My First Dog
Chapter 41 Follow the Thread
Chapter 42 Remember the Alamo
Section vi You Don't Have To Be Perfect for My World To Be Whole
Chapter 43 King Tut's Spider--Retractions and Corrections
Chapter 44 The Petrified Lie
Chapter 45 Never on Sunday
Chapter 46 A Refrigerator on the Fritz and How to Fight Fair
Chapter 47 When Humans Marry
Section vii You Don't Have To Be Religious to Enjoy God
Chapter 48 The Entire Book of Adhesions
Chapter 49 The Plight of Lot
Chapter 50 It's Easier to Say Good-bye and Leave
Chapter 51 The Day the Earth Didn't Move
Chapter 52 You're Not a Great Man
Chapter 53 The Psychology Test
Chapter 54 Don't Say It's All Right If It Isn't
Chapter 55 The Hospital Visit
Chapter 56 Margin Notes and Dog-Earred Friends
Chapter 57 Cruising for a Parking Space
Chapter 58 Stanley Hall
Chapter 59 Dirt-Road Memories
Chapter 60 What Are You Doing with Those?
Epilogue
Endnotes
About the Author