Introduction 1. BEING THERE Amanda Love in a Box Just Between Us I Love You, Pilgrim On the Nose We Are Dragon-Slayers Understanding Dad The Camping Trip Outstretched Arms Sour Pickle Run for Gold Love’s Larnce 2. A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE Safe Harbors and Sailing Ships Daddy’s Dance The Adventure Fired from the Peanut Patch Man of Few Words Retirement Plan Father Meets Cat The Artist Finding Lost Love A Father’s Gift from a Daughter Dirt Cheap My Father’s Hands The Obituary 3. LIFE LESSONS The Great Candy Bar Debate "Yes, Daddy, I Promise" The Lesson How to Trust, Dad-Style Of Wings and Strings Just a Walk in the Park The Fifty-Cent Sewing Machine Lessons from a Teenager Hidden Wings Questions Bullfrogs, Butterflies and Dads What I Learned at the Outhouse Races 4. SPECIAL MOMENTS The Dad He Planned to Be Dad’s Right Hand Trust Me Papa’s Gift to Kelsey Humor Me Baseball Game Plan Who Giveth? Long-Distance Vitamins The Best "Father-Daughter Date" Ever! I’m Confessin’ That I Love You Father of Fortune Daddy’s Little Tomboy Father’s Secret Two Fathers and a Bride Roadside Rescue 5. ON GRATITUDE Father Christmas Solemn Images Spelling L-O-V-E The Painted Tractor Ethyl Memorial Day Flags Struggle and Celebration A Decent Thing to Do 6. FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES She Calls Me Daddy Anna’s First Cubs Game Owed to Joy Be Slow to Anchor Moonshine A Forkful of Humor The Price of a Child Black and White Dear Daddy 7. ON HEALING Tearing Down the Wall Advice from a Tree Taken for Granted Letter to a Stranger The Haircut Peela Father Knows Best A Piece of Chalk Unpaved Roads Apology to a Child I Want My Daddy Back Daddy’s Story Time to Forgive Closer and Closure Secret Tears 8. TRADmONS Smeared Ink Across the Pond Christmas in a Nutshell Slow-Dance Eat Dessert First My Father’s Chair Donuts Wedding Day 9. ACROSS GENERATIONS Apa’s Motto in Life Punch Lines Like Riding a Bike Reel Event Connected by Love Cash Rewards That Dang Horse In My Dad’s Boots Daddy’s Gift Acknowledgments