Amazon.com description: Product Description: "All true loves are full of quarrels, and these essays tangle through some of mine," writes Paul J. Willis. Candid, adventuresome, hilarious and soul-searching, Willis explores his conservative religious upbringing, his affinity for the Romantic poets, his lifelong avocation of mountaineering and his midlife understandings of faith and wilderness. Several of the twenty-one essays in this collection have appeared in publications such as Ascent, The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004, The Best Christian Writing 2006, Books & Culture, The Climbing Art, Image, The Other Side, Redwood Coast Review, River Teeth and Summit. "Settle into the steady expectation of delight," says John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture. "Such is the charm of Paul Willis's splendid essays."