Introduction
1 ON LOVE
The Healing Power of Love
How Much Love Can You Fit in a Shoebox?
Discretion Is the Better Part of Marriage
You Do It Quiet
Blue Christmas
A Hand to Hold
Daisy's Trip
Lilies of the Valley
The $325 Salvation
The Kindness of Strangers
Los Angeles Gets It Together
A Simple Act
Hope
My Father's Gift
Sprite
First-Day Employee
First Night
Missing Pieces
A Christmas Adoption Miracle
The Storyteller
My Second Proposal
The Swordsman
2 ON PARENTING
3 ON DEATH AND DYING
4 ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
5 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
6 LIVE YOUR DREAM
7 A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
8 ECLECTIC WISDOM
Acknowledgments