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Offers the author's thoughts on the tenderness of hand-holding between parent and child.

Offers the author's experience in teaching online in a virtual classroom.

Describes the author's experience with a toddler who likes to draw on her own skin and the mother's decision to encourage talent.

Offers the author's memories of a grandmother who baked pies and taught her to can peaches from the autumn harvest.

Offers the author's confession of being a word lover because she has a dictionary in every room of her house.

Offers the author's thoughts on instruction manuals.

Focuses on the author's experience in searching for galoshes or rain overboots for his horse.

Offers an anecdote concerning a conch shell and the prevalence of mobile phones.

Offers the experience of a mother and daughter who travel to Iceland to ride Icelandic horses, and includes a history of these animals. INSET: Another unique island breed.

Presents the author's thoughts about her home after the children have gone off to college.

Presents the author's experience in cutting her husband's hair.

Offers the author's thoughts on the link between astronomy and philosophy after a viewing of the Perseid meteors in the night sky on August 12, 2001 was impossible because of weather conditions.

Offers the author's experience at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.

Offers the author's insights into his daughter's idealism and passion for activism in light of his own youthful experience.

Mentions the author's enjoyment of being married and attending parties as a couple.

Offers the author's experience on setting standards for college students in regard to getting assignments finished on time with the idea that work must be done in spite of life's difficulties.

Describes the author's perspective on the countryside around the family's farm, where other farms have been divided and developed into estates for homeowners.

Tells of how the author discovered a 100 dollar bill hidden in an old newspaper while housecleaning, and thoughts on unexpected discoveries.

Reflects on the author's experiences traveling with her parents, thoughts on adult children vacationing with their families, and relationships between parents and children.

Reflects on items which can be found in the trash during spring cleaning, and items of value which can be salvaged from the garbage.

Reflects on postpartum depression in light of a case in which a mother killed her children, and how prayer can help one cope with parenting.

Reflects on the importance of being both practical and poetic, and the view that a life without being practical can be chaos and that a life without poetry is half a life.

Presents readers' stories of true love, including a story of how a woman met her husband, and a story of fatherhood.

Details the efforts of the author, her daughter, and a friend in providing housing for owls and bluebirds.

Offers a story about the author's mother who as a child struggled with the idea of stealing and as an adult pushed for economic and social justice and a more-equitable sharing of power and wealth.

Presents the experiences of the author as a child in the house of his grandmother and his return to her house.

Presents the humorous experiences of the author in dealing with a pet cat.

Presents the experiences of the author in grading students in a writing class.

Presents the experiences of the author in attending a speech given by her son at a required public speaking engagement for school.

Presents the experiences of the author in growing up in Maine and watching a magician perform with friends.

Presents the experiences of the author in having learned bowling etiquette from his father and applying it to modern bowling with his son.

Presents the experiences of the author in feeding fish with his grandfather.

Presents the experiences of the author in eating bread on a Greek island during her honeymoon.

Presents the experiences of the author in having one of his college students quit school to work for an Internet company, and discusses the relevance of higher education.

Focuses on the college experience and how each person's college experience is different.

Offers an anecdotal account of what it is like living with a dog that the author's daughter brought home from an animal shelter. Decision to name the dog Frode, which is the name for the Norse god of mischief; Description of the mischievous nature of the dog and how the author loves him anyway.

Discusses ways to take children out of school for a year so kids have an opportunity to travel with their parents.

Presents the experience of the author in having the engine in his car replaced.

Presents general interest, anecdotal news briefs as of January 8, 2001 including the allegation that British popular musician Robbie Williams stole the intellectual property of Pita Sharples, a Maori from New Zealand.

Presents anecdotal accounts of journalists on assignment as of January 8, 2001 including one reporter's experiences in Prague, Czech Republic where public protests are taking place over the management of state television.

Presents general interest, anecdotal news briefs as of December 26, 2000 including the announcement in Great Britain by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents that Christmas pudding might react violently if warmed for too long in a microwave oven.

Presents anecdotal, general interest news briefs as of December 18, 2000 including the decision by the German city of Berlin to sell its herd of cattle.

Focuses on the author's experience with entertainer Steve Allen in the mid-1980s at a local comedy club in which the author participated with his impressions of Jimmy Stewart and Ed Sullivan.

Relates the experience of two California siblings playing in a backyard swimming pool before the younger one leaves on a Peace Corps volunteer assignment in Ecuador.

Presents anecdotal accounts of journalists on assignment as of December 5, 2000 including one reporter's experiences while meeting Mexican President Vicente Fox.

Presents anecdotal accounts of journalists on assignment as of December 4, 2000 including one reporter's acquisition of a Somali passport.

Presents anecdotal accounts of journalists on assignment as of December 1, 2000 including the presence of one reporter at a political protest in the Philippines.

Presents an account of the author's canoe trip with his son on the Penobscot River in Maine.

Offers the author's opinions on the use of cellular telephones on trains.

Presents a humorous perspective on vote counting difficulties experienced in Florida in the 2000 United States presidential election by referring to the governmental procedures of a small town in Maine.