Valerie Schultz is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Give Us This Day, America magazine, and in her regular column for the Bakersfield Californian. She is also the author of the book Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God. She and her husband Randy have four daughters.

• Contents:Introduction xi000 Information & General WorksHere’s the Deal 1Library Work 18Used Books 20Overdue 22The Letter R 24100 Philosophy & PsychologyPrecious and Precarious 27The Grace of Acceptance 29No In-Between 31Psych Reports 33Sex Offenders and Me: An Uneasy Alliance 36200 ReligionVisits with Brothers 40Christmas in Captivity 45A Thief in the Night 48Unforgiven 51A Congress of World Religions 58300 Social SciencesNormal/Not-Normal 61Men Are from Mars . . . 68. . . Women Are from Venus 72Institutionalization 73Eat a Peach 74Family Visits 78A Moment of Silence 80Inmate Turner 83Lessons in Appreciation 86400 LanguageThe Work Glossary 88Spanish Lessons 90Stumped by the Code of Prison 92The Language of Grief 95500 Pure ScienceInventions 98Animal Lovers 101Cat Lessons 104Flies for Henrietta 106Naturalists on the Yard 110600 TechnologyOr Lack Thereof 113College Comes to Prison 116My Alarm 120700 Arts & RecreationThe Regulars 123The Rumor Mill 128Tattoos 132The Things They Left in Books 134Sports Fans 137800 LiteratureThe Transformative Power of the P Encyclopedia 139Writing on the Inside 140Getting the Written Word Out of the Prison 145The Caged Bird 146

Valerie Schultz is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Give Us This Day, America magazine, and in her regular column for the Bakersfield Californian. She is also the author of the book Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God. She and her husband Randy have four daughters.

• Contents:Introduction xi000 Information & General WorksHere’s the Deal 1Library Work 18Used Books 20Overdue 22The Letter R 24100 Philosophy & PsychologyPrecious and Precarious 27The Grace of Acceptance 29No In-Between 31Psych Reports 33Sex Offenders and Me: An Uneasy Alliance 36200 ReligionVisits with Brothers 40Christmas in Captivity 45A Thief in the Night 48Unforgiven 51A Congress of World Religions 58300 Social SciencesNormal/Not-Normal 61Men Are from Mars . . . 68. . . Women Are from Venus 72Institutionalization 73Eat a Peach 74Family Visits 78A Moment of Silence 80Inmate Turner 83Lessons in Appreciation 86400 LanguageThe Work Glossary 88Spanish Lessons 90Stumped by the Code of Prison 92The Language of Grief 95500 Pure ScienceInventions 98Animal Lovers 101Cat Lessons 104Flies for Henrietta 106Naturalists on the Yard 110600 TechnologyOr Lack Thereof 113College Comes to Prison 116My Alarm 120700 Arts & RecreationThe Regulars 123The Rumor Mill 128Tattoos 132The Things They Left in Books 134Sports Fans 137800 LiteratureThe Transformative Power of the P Encyclopedia 139Writing on the Inside 140Getting the Written Word Out of the Prison 145The Caged Bird 146

Valerie Schultz is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Give Us This Day, America magazine, and in her regular column for the Bakersfield Californian. She is also the author of the book Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God. She and her husband Randy have four daughters.

• Contents:Introduction xi000 Information & General WorksHere’s the Deal 1Library Work 18Used Books 20Overdue 22The Letter R 24100 Philosophy & PsychologyPrecious and Precarious 27The Grace of Acceptance 29No In-Between 31Psych Reports 33Sex Offenders and Me: An Uneasy Alliance 36200 ReligionVisits with Brothers 40Christmas in Captivity 45A Thief in the Night 48Unforgiven 51A Congress of World Religions 58300 Social SciencesNormal/Not-Normal 61Men Are from Mars . . . 68. . . Women Are from Venus 72Institutionalization 73Eat a Peach 74Family Visits 78A Moment of Silence 80Inmate Turner 83Lessons in Appreciation 86400 LanguageThe Work Glossary 88Spanish Lessons 90Stumped by the Code of Prison 92The Language of Grief 95500 Pure ScienceInventions 98Animal Lovers 101Cat Lessons 104Flies for Henrietta 106Naturalists on the Yard 110600 TechnologyOr Lack Thereof 113College Comes to Prison 116My Alarm 120700 Arts & RecreationThe Regulars 123The Rumor Mill 128Tattoos 132The Things They Left in Books 134Sports Fans 137800 LiteratureThe Transformative Power of the P Encyclopedia 139Writing on the Inside 140Getting the Written Word Out of the Prison 145The Caged Bird 146