This book is a collection of stories – some of fiction, some from real life, but all written with an eye toward what it might be to ‘be human’. There are stories of connections, of family bonds; stories of loss and triumph, stories of ‘spirit’. Invariably any collection of stories that look to what it is to ‘be human’ might examine society and liberty, and here the author pulls no punches – but all are written with a compassion for the human being and his/her place in this wondrous world.