A collection of humorous essays by outdoor writer Patrick McManus, describing his grandmother, who cooked for a logging camp, his schoolteacher mother, and his aptly named dog, Strange.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”