From Notes of a translator's son / by Joseph Bruchac -- My Tex Mex essay / by Jacinto Cardona -- From If you are what you eat, then what am I? / by Geeta Kothari -- Cool beef / by Jeremy Lee -- From Homemade mayonnaise / by Pat Conroy -- Practicing medicine can be Grimm work / by Valerie Gribben -- Being content with myself / by Kamaal Majeed -- From I came to Duke with an empty wallet / by KellyNoel Waldorf -- I read poems many times a day / by Madge McKeithen -- From Poetry matters / by Ralph Fletcher -- Turbesi Park / by Emily Lisker -- A duty to family, heritage and country / by Ying Ying Yu -- Cakes / by Naswal Nasrallah -- Hispanic heritage / by Raquel Sentíes -- Courtesy / by Gary Soto -- Get yourself some credit / by Shadi Feddin -- From What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets / by Michael Sandel -- Public good / by William Sloane Coffin -- A parsonage / by Lori Marie Carlson -- The octogenarian cheerleader / by Scott Pitoniak -- From Making choices / by Alexandra Stoddard -- From The United States of ambition / by Alan Ehrenhalt -- From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island 18 August 1790 / by George Washington -- From Who let the dogs in? : incredible political animals I have known / by Molly Ivins -- From Cooperation in congress? It's in our constitutional DNA / by David E. Skaggs -- From Reason to believe / by Mario Cuomo -- Get a life / by Anna Quindlen -- Puzzle solved, creatively / by Yuyi Li -- I'd like to recall some times / by Alexandre Hollan.