Small wonder: [essays]

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.