Death Steals Everything Except Our Stories.

I See More Genuine Sociability Between The Races In Mississippi Than I See In Michigan. No Question.

The World That Used To Nurse Us Now Keeps Shouting Inane Instructions. That's Why I Ran To The Woods.

This Infantile Sense Of Order Tended To Infect My Life At Large. Up At 5:30 A.m., Coffee, Oatmeal, Perhaps Sausage (homemade), And Fresh Eggs Giving One Of The Yolks To Lola. Listening To Npr And Grieving More Recently Over The Absence Of Bob Edwards Who Was The Sound Of Morning As Surely As Birds. Reading A Paragraph Or Two Of Emerson Or Loren Eiseley To Raise The Level Of My Thinking. Going Out To Feed The Cattle If It Was During Our Six Months Of Bad Weather.

Michigan Is Two Radically Different Places - The North And The South Which Makes For Good Drama And Contrast.

I Don't See Gender As The Most Significant Fact Of Human Existence.