Introduction -- Man of Winter -- Catch and Release -- Letting Go -- Summertime -- River of Love -- The Special Place -- Statistical Sweet Nothings -- Waiting for Beckett -- The Brave Heart: How to Say Goodbye -- August 2006: Last Day with Father -- The Body Electric -- The Glory of the Unanticipated Note -- Maryfield, Saskatchewan - Part 1 -- Maryfield, Saskatchewan- Part 2 -- Field Trip of a Lifetime -- Intimacy: Let It Out or Keep It In? -- Stampede Boy -- Vacation from Vacation -- The Host from Hell -- Parents Gone Wild -- On Transformation -- This Land is Your Land -- Why I Can't Stop Thinking About Cars -- When the Going Gets Tough -- Life a la carte -- On Creativity -- Friendship -- Do Not Fly Away -- This Moment for the Rest of My Life -- 3 X 1973: Williams Lake - Part 1 -- 3 X 1973: Williams Lake - Part II -- Looking into the Mirror -- The Forbidden Cheezie -- I Golf Therefore I Forgot -- From Good to Great -- The Aspirational World -- Life and Taxes -- Lyla from New Brunswick -- The Burden of Choice -- Gretel in Whistler -- Waiting for D-day -- Love is a Decision -- Father, Soldier, Revolutionary, Spy - Part 1 -- Father, Soldier, Revolutionary, Spy - Part II -- Father, Soldier, Revolutionary, Spy - Part III -- First Cast - Part I -- First Cast - Part II -- Electric Fear -- The Power of Self-Forgiveness -- Snow Falling on the Valley -- The Starlight Drive-In -- Some Things Never Change -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.