Lyrical and provocative, these essays about life, love, family and nature come from the prime of C.W. Gusewelle's career as columnist for The Kansas City Star. This anthology answers pleas like this one from an admiring reader : "I find your columns everywhere ... under old grocery lists, in the pocket of a favorite jacket, among the sheets of music on the piano. Compile your columns in a book, and take this monkey off my back."