Table of Contents

I, Too, Heard The Owl

• Introduction
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1: It Was All Going So Well…
• Chapter 2: A Definition
• Chapter 3: Depression, With Notes Of Self-Righteous Indignation
• Chapter 4: The Guitar
• Chapter 5: Meeting The Neighbor
• Chapter 6: Denial
• Chapter 7: Just Like Tantalus’ Blues: Verse 1
• Chapter 8: Just Like Tantalus’ Blues: Verse 2
• Chapter 9: Just Like Tantalus’ Blues: Verse 3
• Chapter 10: Just Like Tantalus’ Blues: Verse 4
• Chapter 11: Just Like Tantalus’ Blues: Verse 5
• Chapter 12: Just Like Tantalus’ Blues: Verse 6
• Chapter 13: Anger
• Chapter 14: It Happened One Night
• Chapter 15: To Fight, Or Not To Fight
• Chapter 16: In Search Of Courage
• Chapter 17: But, Animals Are Our Friends!
• Chapter 18: The Journey: Part One
• Chapter 19: “Acceptance”
• Chapter 20: Weight
• Chapter 21: The Findings
• Chapter 22: The Journey: Part Two
• Intermission: Howard’s Year of Living Photographically
• Chapter 23: Offers Of Support
• Chapter 24: The Coin Toss
• Chapter 25: Bargaining
• Chapter 26: The Journey: Part Three
• Chapter 27: Aging
• Chapter 28: The Journey: Part Four
• Chapter 29: Snoring
• Chapter 30: The Journey: Part Five
• Chapter 31: Pain, Part I
• Chapter 32: The Journey: Part Six
• Chapter 33: Chores & Labor
• Chapter 34: The Journey: Part Seven
• Chapter 35: Exercise
• Chapter 36: The Journey: Part Eight: Home
• Chapter 37: Retirement
• Chapter 38: The Coin Toss: Buttered-side Down
• Chapter 39: Pain, Part II
• Chapter 40: Denial, Part II: Terminal Lucidity
• Chapter 41: The Bucket List
• Chapter 42: Marriage
• Chapter 43: Sam, Salieri, and…Laurel?