Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs Book

	Introduction	xiii
	Queen of the Gym	1
	Tales from the Duck Side	6
	Eleanor	10
	Chocolate Malt	15
	Obedience	20
	The Carpenter and the Fisherman	25
	Zen and the Art of Tomato Maintenance	30
	D.B. Weeest	34
	Changing	38
	Threads	40
	Of Mites and Men	44
	The Southwest Michigan Jaguars	48
	Eminent Domain	53
	What She Lost	58
	Wounded in Action	60
	The Designated Fetcher	65
	Staring at the Light	70
	Black Holes	73
	Whitebread	76
	Second Standard	81
	Our House	82
	How Many Lesbians Does It Take?	87
	My Mother's Eyes	92
	Frogs	94
	Mother/Spirit	99
	Batting a Thousand	100
	The Chicken Coupe	105
	Maiden Voyage	108
	Clean Sheets	113
	A Cover Story	114
	Thinking of You	119
	Truer Confessions	120
	Mother Learns to Swim	125
	My Ten Most Beautiful Things	130
	Moomeries	136
	The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company	143
	Litter String	150
	Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs	154
	Wreck the Balls on Boughs So Jolly	158
	The Go-Get Girl	163
	Coming Out to My Father	170
	Useless Information Acquired from Men	174
	A Short Treatise on Brothers	177
	A Meat-Lover's Biased Look at Vegetarians	180
	Of Cats and Men	184
	The Sad and Tragic Death of Joey Beagle	189
	The Young Person's Guide for Dealing with the Impossibly Old	196
	The Hand That Cradles the Rock	200
	Does a Bear ...?	204
	Watching Cranes	207
	Tinker	216
	Making Jam	219
	Star Bright	226
	Mother's Day	233
	About the Author	237