Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

PART 1

DESTROY ALL CARS!

January 17

January 18

THE CAR PROBLEM

January 22

January 24

January 25

January 29

SADIE KINNELL: WORKING WITHIN THE SYSTEM

February 1

THE IMPORTANCE OF MOMS

February 6

February 7

KARL MARX

February 11

PART 2

February 12

February 17

REFLECTIONS ON THE MALL

PART 3

February 18

A NIGHT AT THE MALL

February 19

February 20

February 21

February 23

February 25

February 26

February 27

February 28

March 5

March 6

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN ON A DATE (A SHORT STORY)

PART 4

Issues (A Personal Essay)

POSSIBILITIES OF HOPE

PART 5

THE LESSONS OF OSLO

March 19

March 20

March 23

March 24

A PARTIAL LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITIZENS ONE ENCOUNTERS WHILE PARTICIPATING IN OUR POLITICAL PROCESS (I.E. GATHERING SIGNATURES TO SAVE THE WETLANDS)

March 26

A PARTIAL LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF GIRLS WHO WOULD PROBABLY LIKE TO SIT WITH ME ON A LAWN SOMEWHERE AND SHARE HIGH SELF-ESTEEM ENERGIES

April 8

April 9

April 11

MY LIFE AS A TEENAGER

April 12

April 14

April 16

April 23

April 26

April 27

April 30

PART 6

May 7

May 12

May 18

May 22

May 23

May 24

ON NATURE

May 30

Endings (a short philosophical essay)

June 12

June 17

APPENDIX

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2: THOUGHTS ON ASSHOLISM BY JAMES HOFF

APPENDIX 3: THE ART OF THE COLLEGE APPLICATION: THE PERSONAL ESSAY BY JAMES HOFF

APPENDIX 4

Acknowledgments