Bryson recalls his return to the United States after twenty years in England

Coming Home -- Mail Call -- Drug Culture -- What's Cooking? -- Well, Doctor, I Was Just Trying to Lie Down -- Rule Number I: Follow All Rules -- Take Me Out to the Ballpark -- Help! -- A Visit to the Barbershop -- On the Hotline -- Design Flaws -- Room Service -- Consuming Pleasures -- Numbers Game -- Junk-Food Heaven -- How to Have Fun at Home -- Tales of the North Woods -- Cupholder Revolution -- Number, Please -- Friendly People -- Why Everyone Is Worried -- Risk Factor -- War on Drugs -- Dying Accents -- Inefficiency Report -- Why No One Walks -- Wide-Open Spaces -- Snoopers at Work -- Lost at the Movies -- Gardening with My Wife -- Ah, Summer! -- A Day at the Seaside -- On Losing a Son -- Highway Diversions -- Fall in New England -- Best American Holiday -- Deck the Halls -- Fun in the Snow -- Mysteries of Christmas -- Life in a Cold Climate -- Hail to the Chief -- Lost in Cyberland -- Your Tax Form Explained -- Book Tours -- Waste Generation -- A Slight Inconvenience -- At the Drive-In -- Drowning in Red Tape -- Life's Mysteries -- So Sue Me -- Great Indoors -- Death Watch -- In Praise of Diners -- Shopping Madness -- Fat of the Land -- Your New Computer -- How to Rent a Car -- Wasteland -- Flying Nightmare -- Enough Already -- At a Loss -- Old News -- Rules for Living -- Our Town -- Word Play -- Last Night on the Titanic -- Property News -- Life's Technicalities -- An Address to the Graduating Class of Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire