The thirty-two pieces in this collection are not at all the abstract discussions that "essays" can connote, The emphasis is on storytelling, often with humor, pieces full of robust observation, feelings, relevancies, and revelations about engagement with the world. Personal experience is set within the context of bit-picture issues like immigration, modern lifestyles, education, and civil protest. The prose pieces, coupled with poems, are strongly individual, yet universal in terms of human circumstances: "The single seed containing the expressing the entire harvest."