Lit: a memoir

Prologue: Open letter to my son

Side A: Now

Side B: Then

Escape From The Tropic Of Squalor:

Lost in the golden state

Mother of invention

Lackluster college coed

There's no biz like po-biz

Never mind

Flashdance:

Inheritance tax summer

Constant lovers

Temporary help

There when the bride

Bound

In search of incompetence

Bent bender

Homesick

Inconceivable meets the conceivable

Journey of the Magi

Postal partum

No mom is an island

Self Help:

Ivy Beleaguered

Mokus squirreliness of the unmet mind

My concept of commitment

Grinning skull

Mass eye

Lather, rinse, repeat

Affliction

Reprieve

Reluctantly baptized

Untuned instrument

Halfway home

Ceremony (nonbelievers, read at your own risk: power and god ahead)

Hour of lead

Being Who Your Are Is Not A Disorder:

Short history of my stupidity

Nervous hospital

Waking in the blue

Sweet hereafter

I accept a position

Lake-effect humor

Death of date-o-rama or the romance of the prose

Lord of the flies

God shopping

Dysfunctional family sweepstakes

It make a body wonder

On the road

Spiritual exercises of St Ignatius

Bog queen

My sinfulness in all its ugliness

Acknowledgments

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