Table of Contents
From the lost Swede towns --Getting tired --Bruno Bettelheim: three ideas to try in Madison, Minnesota --Forgiving Nixon in Madison, Minnesota --If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly --Enemy evenings --Great snows --Extended vs. nuclear families --Quietly thinking over things at Christmas --To unteach God --Rural feelings: starting in the mailroom and having to stay there --Even paranoids have enemies --Ways out: 1. Non-resource people --Ways out: 2. We are sick of bible camp --Ways out: 3. The way out of small-town niceness and lonliness --Back at the ranch, small dragons, small princesses --Brethren too least for country life --Turning plowshares back into swords --Last person to get a grant --Malaise for followers --Gentle education for us all --Where have all the fifty-five-year-olds gone? --In the same bottle, a different genie --Our class system --Chin up in a rotting culture --Mongoose is missing --To be rude and hopeful instead of whining and quiting --Koko and Wolfgang Amadeus in rural Minnesota --City mouse, the countrymouse, and the overnight-conference mouse --Sticking place --Growing up expressive.