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Tables of Contents for How Can You Mend a Broken Spleen?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
ADVERSITY
Just Keep A-Goin'
3
3
Do You Remember When?...
6
4
Bringing Out the Best
10
3
When Zucchini Happens...
13
3
``Have a Good One!''
16
3
One Mountain at a Time
19
6
COMPASSION
A Valentine for Grandma
25
4
When Being Different Is Being Special
29
3
Prisons without Walls
32
3
``Please Call Me Again''
35
6
FAITH
What's in a Church?
41
3
Why I Believe
44
3
Pray for the Children
47
6
FAMILIES
Now, More Than Ever
53
3
In Praise of Full-Time Homemakers
56
4
Together with Father
60
3
When Princes Turn into Frogs
63
6
HONESTY
A Lesson in Honesty
69
3
A Court of Honor
72
3
Courage in Conviction
75
3
Putting Selective Integrity on Hold
78
3
How's Your ``Technical'' Track Record?
81
6
JUDGING
Knights in Dingy Armor
87
3
A Few Less Thunder Lizards
90
4
Confessions of a Highway Jerk
94
5
LIFE
The Rectangle of Life
99
3
The Geezer in the Glass
102
3
Who's Feeling the Pressure?
105
3
Cherish the Day
108
3
Carefully Spending the Time We Save
111
3
Memory's Rocky Road
114
3
Lessons without Words
117
6
LOVE
Matricide at the Rustic Rink
123
3
Pleasing the People We Love
126
3
``Look What Love Has Done!''
129
3
First-Degree Romance
132
5
PARENTING
Don't Nuke Those Squirrels!
137
3
``No, Because I Love You''
140
3
In Praise of Single Moms---and Dads
143
3
Elizabeth and the Preschool Paramours
146
3
Putting the Finger on Values
149
4
Bound by Love and Toilet Paper
153
6
RELATIONSHIPS
Wrestling with Relationships
159
3
Watch Out for Anita the Hun!
162
3
The Day the Chase Ended
165
3
How Can You Mend a Broken Spleen?
168
3
The Great Date Conspiracy
171
6
RIGHT AND WRONG
The End (So to Speak) of the Wee-Wahs
177
3
When Being Rude Is Doing Right
180
3
When the Right Thing Turns Out Wrong
183
6
SELF-CONTROL
Nuts to Self-Control!
189
3
It Isn't the Thought That Counts
192
3
Loose Lips Sink Ships
195
6
SERVICE
``I Need to Give''
201
4
The Importance of Being Gretchen
205
4
A Little Act of Kindness
209
3
Serving in the Battle against Boredom
212
4
The Healing Balm of Service
216
5
TOLERANCE
Differences That Don't Matter
221
3
When Bigotry Poses As Patriotism
224
4
There Goes Another Stereotype
228
5
VALUES
The Case for the Tried and True
233
4
Taking a Stand for Verbal Values
237
3
``I Don't Like This Dream''
240
3
Possessions to Suit Our Principles
243
3
The Values of Sexuality
246
3
The World According to Opie
249
6
WORK
Harnessing the Best That Is within You
255
3
Pro Joe's Excellence Adventure
258
4
Running 180s in a 220 World
262
3
The Strength of the Dreamer
265
6
YOUTH
Haircuts, High-Tops, and Nonhummable Music
271
4
``By Their Fruits...''
275
3
The Truth about Consequences
278
3
Blessed Are the Geeks
281