Contents

You Gotta Have Heart

This Is Where We Came In

“I Wish I Could Say the Same”

Stone Reader

Intimacy. Anger

Yes, New York, There Are Baby Pigeons

Wheelchair Yoga

Thriving on Hardship

Heinrich Mann’s Man of Straw

Letters from Robben Island

The Piano

Street Food

Absence Makes the Heart

Meditations in Time of War

Carlos Saura’s Cria!

Ultimate Peek-a-boo

Listening to Anthony Powell

Reality Tour

Alone with the Cat

Acknowledgments