His Subtle Speech

A gentle nudge at the fork of the road

Boxing Out

A Note

The Spitter

Spare the frogs but not the scorpions

The Island

Where I’m from

The Eloquent Silence of It

Sometimes you don’t need to fill the gaps

His Listening

A celebration of a rare and extraordinary thing

The Bulletin Board of Your Head

Who has a ponytail at 70?

Crush

The way she flowed into that bus

Cinnabar

In praise of the One O’Clock Fox

Friday Morning Pop Quiz

(There will be no extra credit)

Beer with Peter

In the spell of a great storyteller

Michael

Lessons learned in the schoolyard

Finches I Have Known

Notes from the life of a bird whisperer

Fourples and Fiples and Sixles

Diamond joy

Mongo

Why would you bait a guy who’d love to take out your teeth?

Letters and Comments on My Writing

A selection

A Note on Stationery

And suddenly the memories revealed themselves

A Tinkering Kind of Guy

The absence of arrogance

Smallclothes

On the natural history of destruction

The Missing

Now you say it in the past tense

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