Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Disorder and Early Sorrow 2 Learning How to Live 3 Laziness and Inertia 4 Beyond the Pleasure Principle 5 Staying Is Nowhere 6 Mothers and Sons, Mothers and Daughters 7 Relaxing from Myself - a Little 8 Conversion and Conversions 9 Parents or Fellow Pilgrims? 10 The Difficulty of Beautiful Things 11 The One Thing 12 A Sharp Quick Sense of Life 13 The Weight of Love Epilogue Bibliography

About the Author

Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She is the author of A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350 - 1750 (2008) and co-author with Hiroko Sakomura of Getting Here from There: Conversations on Life and Work, also published by the Lutterworth Press.

Reviews

"...an autobiography with a difference."
Church Times, 19 July 2013