Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbours - but that doesn't stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can't quite navigate. Family life, marriage, kids, new experiences - he's written about them all, both funny and heartbreaking.

Introduction1 My Kingdom for a Good Night's Sleep2 Handy? Me? Well, I Do Have a Toolbox ...3 Want a Lift to the Gym?4 Hospital Daze: What I Learned This Summer5 Brotherly Love6 Underwear? Under the Tree, of Course!7 "It's Not Muskoka"8 Celebrating Two Very Different Lives9 Once, Twice, Three Times a Birthday10 Bon Voyage to a Son and His Childhood11 A Taste of Something Bitter12 Two Gallons of Losing My Mind, Please13 At the End, a Week-Long Celebration of Life14 Being There15 "But What's Going to Happen to My Stuff?"16 Dad's Christmas Was About Family, Not Turkey17 Lessons on Living18 "What Do You Have in Mind, Dear?"19 What, Me Forgetful?20 The Lawn and Short of It: I Don't Care21 Looking Mortality in the Eye22 The Non-Golfer Cooks in Myrtle Beach23 The Confusing Gap Between What They Say and What I Hear24 A Graduation That's About Triumph and Courage25 Memories of Dad Can Bring Tears26 Going, Going Lawn27 Fall Fair Affair28 There's Always a Part of You That Feels Eighteen29 A Celebration of Life30 Anybody Know Where My Meat Went?31 The Letter32 Memories Spring Up in My Garden33 A Thule and His Sanity Are Soon Parted34 The Man Who Cleared Out the West35 Ah, Cottage Life ... A Second Home to Care For36 Hunting the Wild Tinsel and Other Traditions37 A Gift of Long-Remembered Music38 The Worst Angler Ever39 When I Put On His Ring, I Think of Him40 Paul Puts the Pro in Procrastination41 An Empty Chair at the Dinner Table42 There's a Useless Antique in My House43 I'm a Father. I Worry.44 She Fell, Yes. But She Is Not Falling.45 Keeping Our Kids "Safe" Inside Is, as Scientists Say, "Stupid"46 Cottaging by the (Wet) Seat of My Pants47 The Journey Is Half the Fun. Isn't It?48 Missing Matt49 The (Old) Boys Decide to Hit the Town ...50 140-Character Witticisms51 Old Underwear Is No Accident52 Our New Christmas: Different, but in Many Ways the Same53 A Low-Res Year54 And These Are My Children ... Venti, Grande, and Tall55 Love Beyond Our Imperfections56 The Penny Drops on Mother's Day57 Giving a Whole New Meaning to "Couch Surfing"58 The Basement That Stole Christmas59 My Wife, the Socks Maniac60 It's a Be-Mine Field61 Dazed and Confused in the Grocery Aisle62 The Great Escape: What's Wrong with My House?63 Who Knew They Were Listening?64 My Mother: She Was Not Special ... But She Was65 Seawalls, Coffee Shops, and Used Books66 Anchors Away67 #youknowyouareoldwhen68 Letting Go, One Child at a Time69 Schnapps and Skinny Suits70 Next Time, It's the Full Mullet71 "The Twelve Ways of Christmas"72 Party Like It's 1970-Something73 It's Been a Year: Food, Family, and Friends Have a Wonderful Healing Power74 Your Dad Does Not Want a New Necktie75 Every Gardener Needs a Handy Wood Man76 September Is the Real New Year77 There's No Retirement in My Future78 If Pepperoni is DEATH, I'll Take the Risk79 The Soundtrack of My Life80 A Look Back at 2015, Benedetti Style81 Grey Hair and Baggy Face? How Did This Happen?82 Zip Up. Pull Down Handle.83 Of Suits, Sadness, and Seasons84 These Beers Are a Little Too Crafty85 Things My Father Told Me86 Convocation Miscalculation87 Whatever Boat You Float, Fishing Is Fun88 Do I Need to Get a Man Bag?89 School Daze90 Reflections on the Long Road of ParentingAcknowledgements