Sleeping at the Starlite Motel : [electronic resource] and other adventures on the way back home / Bailey White.

Civilized friends -- Family values -- Ashes -- The chairs -- Red the rat man -- A hot night in '31 -- The language of flowers -- Blood and water -- Mr. Bonzonio -- Rocks -- Folk art -- Native air -- Forbidden things -- Hot springs -- Saltville -- One-room schoolhouse -- Fish camp -- Something old, something new -- Cumberland Island -- Nursery -- Walking horses -- Large and deep -- Produce stand -- A matter of time -- Garden of Eden -- The wedding guest -- Career choices -- Dr. Fielding -- Vanishing species -- The retired Russian colonel -- An old lepidopterist -- Spelunking in middle age -- Computer school -- Horror movies -- Frozen man -- Styles of dying -- The Starlite Motel.

A collection of essays by an author who approaches both the zany and the mundane with keen observation and good story-telling.