Porch Talk Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060736585
- ISBN: 9780060736583
- Physical Description: 170 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The gig'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 when sitting in meeting -- Contentment -- Camping -- On the road again -- Spring and all it portends -- My history with easter -- The end times. |
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Subject: | Gulley, Philip > Anecdotes. Christian life > Anecdotes. Quaker authors. |
Genre: | Anecdotes. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 13 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Drexel | 242 GUL 2007 (Text) | 0002203334251 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |