Why I write you letters -- Get a life philosophy -- Interlude: Meet the Stoics -- Say no to the pigdog -- Low-level happiness -- That's amore -- Invictus -- Interlude: William Ernest Henley -- Donkeys and weasels -- Uncle Golden Toe -- Small carrots -- Homo stupidus to Homo sapiens -- Interlude: The four cardinal virtues -- Read yourself a new brain -- Parenting : to bring forth -- The imp of the perverse -- My name is Karen and I do not want to speak to your manager -- Decline of the sacred -- The strangest of places -- Memento mori -- Interlude: Things to do when you're dead -- The fourth trimester -- A letter from Jack.