"A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--

My Birthday, Again -- Wide Berth -- Jeff Being Jeff -- Communal Walking Stick -- Perfect Notebook -- Perfect Spoon (or Cup) -- Clothesline -- Free Stuff -- Daisy Returns -- Alright Baby! -- Full Moon! -- Shortcut -- Babies Again (Seriously) -- Animalympics -- Under the Table -- Hole in the Head, Redux; Coda: Negretting -- Lady in the Tree -- Lady on the Porch -- How Good It Feels -- Braces on Adults -- (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes -- Dream Dancing -- Sweet Potato Harvest -- Squirrel in a Pumpkin -- Blue-Spectacle Tulips Hearty to Zone 4 -- Snoopy -- One Million Kisses -- Honey Buns -- Lyrica -- Vernacular Driving -- As Is My Mother's Way Sometimes -- Goodbye Nana -- Unusual Mailbox -- Boom: Here's Loo -- Gnomes -- OREO Speedwagon -- Dad in Dream Unaging -- My Neighbor's Face -- Scarecrow the World -- Michael McDonald -- Mistranscription -- DeBarge on Tiny Desk -- Garlic Sprouting -- Being Read To -- Gucci -- Helmets Free -- Complimentary Function -- Early! -- Be Direct -- Imposter (Syndrome) -- Tagalog Word for Which -- Truly Overnight Sometimes It Seems -- Not This Dog -- I'd Prefer Not To -- Improvised Pocket Parks -- Purple Iris Angel -- Tag and Such -- Paper Menus (and Cash!) -- Eat Candy! Destroy the State! -- At the End of a Photoshoot with My Friend Natasha, Walking Here and There Through the Orchard, Facing This Way, then That, in Front of the Peach Tree -- Friends Let Us Do Our Best Not to Leave This Life Having Not Loved What We Love Enough -- Door -- Minor Codiality -- Small Fluffy Things -- Riiiiiita, Riiiiiiita! -- Hands for Carrying -- Mulberry Picking -- Garlic Harvest (NC-17) -- Sunflower in the Mortar -- Yellowjackets -- Courtesy of Truckers -- How Literature Saved My Life -- Hickies, Ostentatiously Blandished -- Dream Redux -- Angels All -- Sunergos -- Hugging in the Co-Op -- Throwing Children -- Cave City Watermelon Festival -- "To Respect Each Other's Madness and Right to Be Wrong" -- My Birthday, Again