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  October 18, 1985

  April 9, 1985

  My Fiftieth Year to Heaven

  National Public Radio Journal Entries

  November 25, 1985

  All the King’s Horses

  On Belonging to Art, Almanac of the Franklin Mint, Vol. 8, No. 3

  Clarence, A Celebration, Dixie Magazine,

  New Orleans Times-Picayune (Summer 1985)

  National Public Radio Journal Entries

  August 1, 1985

  WORK

  National Public Radio Journal Entries

  January 9, 1985

  March 5, 1985

  March 12, 1985

  March 21, 1985

  April 16, 1985

  April 21, 1985

  June 21, 1985

  July 26, 1985

  August 14, 1985

  September 13, 1985

  September 18, 1985

  October 30, 1985

  November 1, 1985

  November 19, 1985

  December 4, 1985

  December 11, 1985

  December 25, 1985

  January 14, 1986

  February 17, 1986

  February 25, 1986

  March 11, 1986

  March 17, 1986

  March 26, 1986

  April 29, 1986

  July 28, 29, 30, 1986

  August 18, 1986

  October 23, 1986

  October 31,1986

  A White River Journal,

  Southern Magazine, Vol. I, No. 6 (March 1986)

  National Public Radio Journal Entries

  December 11, 1986

  Sons and Brothers and Husbands and Lovers,

  Or, Why I Am Not a Feminist

  The Best Things I Know,

  Baccalaureate Address, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, 1985

  FURTHER REFLECTIONS

  In Praise of the Young Man, Vogue Magazine (September 1997)

  How to Have a Small Dinner Party,

  for Dean Faulkner Wells’s cookbook of writers

  The Greatest Airplane Flight of My Life

  The Darkness and the Light, Washington Post Sunday Magazine (1994)

  Transitions, Washington Post Sunday Magazine (1997)

  A Southern Christmas, Washington Post Sunday Magazine (1994)

  A Delta of Three Rivers, Outside Magazine (April 1999)

  A Journey to New York City

  I’m Not Slave Material,

  Health Magazine (1993), Family Issues McGraw-Hill Publishers (1995)

  Like a Flower of Feathers or a Winged Branch,

  Creative Non-Fiction (1997)

  The Fabulous Booklined Walls of My Grannie, New Woman (1996)

  I’ve Always Meant to Tell You, Letters of Our Mothers, edited by Constance

  Warloe, Pocket Books (1997); The Atlanta Constitution Sunday Magazine (1997)

  Remembering My Daddy

  The Writing Life

  The Almost Complete and Final Answer

  The author is grateful to the following for permission to reprint previously copyrighted material:

  Excerpt from The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav. Copyright © 1979 by Gary Zukav. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Co. Ltd.

  Excerpts from “Burnt Norton” and “East Coker” in Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot; renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd.

  Excerpts from the unpublished papers of Walter Inglis Anderson reprinted by permission of the family of Walter Inglis Anderson.

  Excerpt from “Renascence” in Renascence & Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright 1917 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor of the Estate of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

  Excerpts from “Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound” in All My Pretty Ones by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1962 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.