Small wonder --Saying grace -- Knowing our place -- The patience of a saint -- Seeing scarlet -- Setting free the crabs -- A forest's last stand -- Called out -- A fist in the eye of God -- Lily's chickens -- The one-eyed monster, and why I don't let him in -- Letter to a daughter at thirteen -- Letter to my mother -- Going to Japan -- Life is precious, or it's not -- Flying -- Household words -- What good is a story? -- Marking a passage -- Taming the beast with two backs -- Stealing apples -- And our flag was still there -- God's wife's measuring spoons.