Women in a man's world, crying -- The girls' locker room -- Her breast -- Women in prison -- Nails -- Girls playing hardball -- The father-daughter game -- A Southern Thanksgiving -- Donor -- A simple life -- Recipes and the friends who went with them -- Barbie -- School lunch -- Michael Jordan's midlife crisis -- Burying Annie -- Crossing the viaduct -- My mother's brain -- Race car drivers and writers -- December, a grandmother's dying -- Nixon -- Jackie - - The mouse -- The South catches on to AIDS -- The AIDS care team -- The family reunion -- Grits -- The Southern art of feeding -- Museum -- The disappearing South -- The star of wonder -- Jan, my cousin -- The apple tree -- Mother's day -- Other people's hell -- Normandy -- Letters from the war -- On marriage -- A feminist Easter -- Eros -- The moon, twenty-five years later -- Walking on water -- Writers don't wear petticoats -- Imagination's birth -- The horse -- The house within.