Porch Talk
Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species
New York : HarperOne, [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: iv, 170 pages ; 20 cm
A nostalgic collection of personal anecdotes reflects on a time when porch-centered lives enabled greater family and community connections, remembering such simple pleasures as lemonade, chirping crickets, and bonding with a pet dog.
Contents:
Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The jig's up -- Call me coach -- Pond life -- The slow life -- You get what you pay for -- The compact -- The tornado -- The state of housing -- Better late than never! -- Exercise and other dirty words -- My conflicted life -- Too many friends -- Professional thinkers -- Zipper -- The writing life -- My wife, the scofflaw -- The death of freedom -- Simplicity -- The natural order of things -- A growing problem -- Things I ponder while sitting in meeting --Contentment -- Camping -- On the road again -- Spring and all it portends -- My history with Easter -- The end times.
Subjects:
Gulley, Philip -- Anecdotes.
Christian life -- Anecdotes.
Christian life -- Quaker authors.
Gulley, Philip -- Anecdotes.
Christian life -- Anecdotes.
Christian life -- Quaker authors.
ISBN:
0060736585
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
RELIGION Christian Life Gul | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |