A Philosophy of Life | p. 11 |
How to Read a Meter, and Other Rare Talents | p. 14 |
The Joys of Plump-armed Women | p. 17 |
Christmas Wishes | p. 19 |
Love and Checkers | p. 22 |
101 Uses for Mistletoe and Vodka | p. 24 |
...Of Snails, and Girls, and Other Things | p. 28 |
A Sport of Men | p. 31 |
How to Just Be Friends | p. 33 |
The Best-laid Plans of Mice And Grandfathers | p. 37 |
Fish without Favor | p. 40 |
Turning Tides and Tables | p. 43 |
The Sheik, Errol, and the Five Foot Mustache | p. 45 |
Heroes in Strange Places | p. 48 |
Love and the Tiger-Striped Undershorts | p. 50 |
How to Not Just be Friends | p. 52 |
Clarice At 5:00 | p. 55 |
Relative Roulette | p. 57 |
The Days of Knights and Leaky Pipes | p. 60 |
Grandfathers at Large | p. 66 |
Little Bobby Meets His Mother | p. 70 |
Who is Sheba? | p. 73 |
The Officer takes Charge | p. 78 |
The Return of the Red Thing | p. 82 |
Bobby's Soliloquy | p. 86 |
The Reunion | p. 88 |
Friendly Worms and the Sport of Men | p. 91 |
Helping Meagan | p. 93 |
Firecrackers and the Single Man | p. 95 |
Figuring Things Out | p. 99 |
The Landlord Lets the Cat Out | p. 102 |
Gladys' Revenge | p. 106 |
The Cat Has a Fit | p. 109 |
The Patience of a Sheriff | p. 112 |
Bobby At the Mound | p. 114 |
What do you do with a Bronze-tipped Sailor? | p. 117 |
Being Nothing Like Tony | p. 120 |
Show Me Your Sketchings | p. 121 |
Gift Fidgets, and Other Strange Phenomena | p. 125 |
Mark at 4:55 | p. 127 |
The Delicate Art of Hiding Engagement Rings | p. 130 |
Mark Awakes | p. 133 |
Mark Departs | p. 136 |
Carnivals, Edsels, and Hammer Things | p. 138 |
The Many Ways to Acquire Tingling Toes | p. 140 |
Too Short at the Carny | p. 144 |
The Challenge | p. 146 |
The Many Uses of a Bathtub | p. 149 |
Remembering Barney | p. 151 |
Kathleen | p. 153 |
Elves, Fairies, and Green-eyed Girlfriends | p. 156 |
Round I | p. 159 |
Round II | p. 162 |
Perfectly Good Grandsons | p. 165 |
K.O. | p. 168 |
Charles Bows Out | p. 172 |
Bobby Visits His Parents | p. 174 |
Hurricanes, and Other Annual Events | p. 178 |
Wiles of a Grandfather | p. 180 |
The Hindenberg, and Other Balloon Disasters | p. 181 |
The Art of the Bluff | p. 183 |
Five Irish Uncles | p. 185 |
Mark Busts Loose | p. 187 |
Barney Babbles | p. 189 |
Uncle Barney? | p. 192 |
Happy Homecoming | p. 193 |
The Bridge Club, and Other Dangerous Animals | p. 195 |
Bobby Agrees | p. 200 |
Sweet Twenty-six, and Never Been Hitched | p. 203 |
Mitchell's Castle | p. 205 |
Fitz Gives In | p. 208 |
Plans and Schemes, Schemes and Plans | p. 209 |
The Gran'parents Pose | p. 211 |
The Grandfather's Arrange | p. 213 |
Birthday with Bellows | p. 216 |
Bobby Gets Weird | p. 218 |
A Pair of Patrons | p. 221 |
That Woozy Feeling | p. 224 |
Veteran's Day | p. 226 |
One Irish Uncle | p. 228 |
Three More on the Road | p. 230 |
Uncle Seamus Explains | p. 234 |
A Walk in the Woods with Barney | p. 237 |
Taking Another Look | p. 240 |
Counting Blessings | p. 242 |
A Moderate Proposal | p. 244 |
The Attack of the Five Irish Uncles | p. 247 |
Four Down, Four to.. Ireland? | p. 250 |
Once More, With Barney | p. 251 |
The Fitzhugh Gambit | p. 253 |
Life in the Castle | p. 255 |
Jake Simpson Rides Again | p. 257 |
Romantic Soup | p. 261 |
Kissing Meagan | p. 263 |
Missing Meagan | p. 265 |
Bluffing Mitchell | p. 267 |
Very Important Questions | p. 269 |
Mistletoe and Barney | p. 272 |
Unexplored Territory | p. 273 |
Bobby Buys a Teddy | p. 276 |
Gran'pa's Dream | p. 277 |
Old Coots, Santa, and the Little Square Box | p. 279 |
Julian Asks a Question | p. 282 |
Bobby Almost Does | p. 283 |
How to Read a Meter, Without Police Involvement | p. 286 |
The Sheriff Teases | p. 288 |
Fuzzy Slippers, Blinking Underwear, and Bewildered Barneys | p. 290 |
Another Manchester Tradition | p. 293 |
Gran'pa Bags a Big One | p. 294 |
Barney Gets Weird | p. 296 |
Decorating Goliath | p. 298 |
Getting it Right | p. 302 |
Marriage Maneuver 227 | p. 305 |
Home in the Holidays | p. 307 |
Another Cat, Another Empty Bag | p. 309 |
Carols For My Rabbi | p. 311 |
Only Two More Shopping Days Left | p. 313 |
The Joys of Family Disapproval | p. 316 |
Mark Gives Advice, and Coffee | p. 320 |
The Many Talents of Uncle Barney | p. 322 |
The Girl, the Gold Ring, and Everything | p. 324 |
Julian Discovers a Woman's Sport | p. 327 |
A Night Alone With the Manchesters | p. 329 |
Barney's Jaw Drops | p. 331 |
With This String... | p. 333 |
Freaks, Storms, Miracles, and A Sport of Men | p. 336 |
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